Science is a legal metaphor

"Last week, Neil deGrasse Tyson offered up the perfect example of scientism when he proposed a country of #Rationalia, in which “all policy shall be based on the weight of evidence.” ---

We already have that. It's called a nation of laws.

Law is materialist; no supernatural beings can be relied upon as witnesses or causes.

Science is actually based on the legal metaphor. Thus it is a collection of natural _laws_. It decides based on objective, material evidence. It proves things based on standards of evidence . It got all that from jurisprudence.