I Have Landed
“Since Darwin cannot logically fulfill both roles at the same time, and since the fact of evolution in general (and the theory of natural selection in particular) cannot legitimately buttress any particular moral or social philosophy in any case, I’m confident that this greatest of all biologists will remain silent no matter how loudly conservatives may summon him.
At one extreme, the scourging of Darwin—the idea that if we drive him away, then we can awaken—has animated a religious faction that... views an old-style Christian revival as central to a stable and well-ordered polity. In Slouching Towards Gomorrah, for example, Robert Bork writes, “The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes,” who “believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. Freud, Marx, and Darwin, according to the conventional account, routed the believers. Freud and Marx are no longer taken as irrefutable by intellectuals, and now it appears to be Darwin’s turn to undergo a devaluation.”MoreLess
At one extreme, the scourging of Darwin—the idea that if we drive him away, then we can awaken—has animated a religious faction that... views an old-style Christian revival as central to a stable and well-ordered polity. In Slouching Towards Gomorrah, for example, Robert Bork writes, “The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes,” who “believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. Freud, Marx, and Darwin, according to the conventional account, routed the believers. Freud and Marx are no longer taken as irrefutable by intellectuals, and now it appears to be Darwin’s turn to undergo a devaluation.”MoreLess
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