This is unfalsifiable, pre-scientific magical thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » 400 Families Earned an Average of $345 Million Each in 2007] Reference

The idea simply did not exist in the pre-scientific era.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTERVIEW: John C. Wright] Reference

It is pre-scientific knowledge that everybody just takes for granted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idea of Design in Nature: Science or Phenomenology? By Jakob Wolf] Reference

Various pre-scientific ideas have been especially tenacious in this field.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973 - Presentation Speech] Reference

What is said about Him seems pre-scientific, no longer fitting for our time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frequencies in our ears] Reference

Would this not be an accurate portrayal of your typical pre-scientific culture?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Avatar: A Western take on Eastern ideas (and I’m not sure that’s good) | MovieChopShop] Reference

Kal, the 19th century was almost pre-scientific as far as biological science went.    From Wordnik.com.  [“Socialism Now to Be Called ‘Sustainable Capitalism’” « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy] Reference

The whole field of education will finally be ushered out of its pre-scientific age.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Revitalized Liberal Agenda] Reference

No one living today with any sense would choose to go back to the pre-scientific past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terry Newell: Who Cares What the Experts Say? - The Democratization of Science] Reference

But what about the most surprising thing to our pre-scientific hunter-gather ancestors?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Surprises] Reference

The causes of the failure of the pre-scientific world are well stated by a living writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference

It has always struck me as totaly crazy that we still do education in a pre-scientific way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Education Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

It takes nature as given–as being in itself–and relies on pre-scientific insight for doing so.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Considering a Candidate’s Religion:] Reference

Because when you compare scientific to pre-scientific approaches, there's one clear winner over and over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew McAfee On Putting The Science In Management Science] Reference

Complain what you want about this but remember that William of Occam was both a theist and pre-scientific.    From Wordnik.com.  [Occam's Hammer: Creationist Rhetoric and the Myth of Philosophical Naturalism - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

This would be fine, if modern readers would consistently take such pre-scientific language metaphorically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference

Follow your own path, not what you think an old book written by pre-scientific people is telling you to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible: Pure or Special Blend?] Reference

Such a model, however, tends to forget the most fundamental, pre-scientific aspects of our being in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hermeneutics] Reference

The attitude in economics today is that the past is dead and was the ‘victim’ of a pre-scientific attitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Austrian Economists:] Reference

Darwinism may be flawed, matey, but Creationism/ID is little more than tarted-up pre-scientific skygod worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creationism And The Strain Of Civilisation « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS] Reference

But what she represents is the popularity of pre-scientific thought which has plagued our nation the last 8 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coffee with Sarah Palin] Reference

But what she represents is the popularity of pre-scientific thought which has plagued our nation the last 8 years. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coffee with Sarah Palin] Reference

Marriage as it is currently instituted contains obsolete provisions reflecting pre-scientific ideas about conception.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Belated “Screw You” from the Clinton Administration] Reference

And that makes it crazy to seek to govern behavior in the 21st century based on the prejudice of a pre-scientific person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Noah's Ark Be Salvaged?] Reference

The direct corollary of this epistemic bias in pre-scientific cultures is the tendency to imagine the world in terms of animism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer] Reference

The notion of the “soul” is therefore incompatible with the norms of science, it is a redundant pre-scientific fossil-concept.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Society statement on evolution, creationism and intelligent design - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

In April 2008 Singh wrote a column for the Guardian about the persistence of pre-scientific ideas in the British chiropractic trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colby Cosh] Reference

It represents a regression to a pre-scientific era when ‘truth’was established on the basis of personal authority of individuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Imagine living in a pre-scientific age when no one knew what the Sun actually was, as an object, as a thing, as a doohicky in the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jupiter effect] Reference

'When they have a choice', Revel writes, 'people today are no more nor less rational than they were in times defined as pre-scientific'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spilling the Beans in Paris and London] Reference

They were written by pre-scientific people with mostly illiterate audiences who were not so nuanced as to get the herm..eh, oh forget it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6] Reference

In the assurance of the pre-scientific world everything remote from ordinary knowledge or experience was inseparable from supernaturalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference

I don't have an answer for the pre-scientific world, but for today's world the answer is that we have failed the child, at least partially.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

These myths may have served a purpose at one time, during the pre-scientific childhood of our species, when stories of magical beings provided comfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

Why should scientists revert to a pre-scientific paradigm simply because some people want their religious convictions to be accorded the status of science?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology.    From Wordnik.com.  [For the Equal Rights Amendment (Aug 10, 1970)] Reference

It is a point of some significance that the perception of design in nature, as with the belief in deity, is, if one may use the expression, pre-scientific in point of origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference