INTERESTING VIEW OF DARWIN
By Larry Taunton
I recently read David Berlinski’s book The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions. In it, Berlinski addresses a question that many of us have asked: why are elements of the scientific community so infatuated with Charles Darwin? The following is an excerpt from page 186:
There are times, I suspect, when even the most ardent among biologists suspects that enough is enough. The Old Boy is everywhere; he has long since ascended to the Pantheon; schoolchildren hymn his name, and while the man himself seems to have been sober, melancholy, and boring, his admirers have over the past twenty years or so succeeded in suggesting that his effulgence was such that had he been embedded in the ocean floor, sailors might for centuries unerringly navigate by his luster. If Richard Dawkins has not yet proposed renaming various English banknotes in Darwin’s favor, this is only because of late he has been too busy counting them.
Enough is enough.
The effort by Darwinian biologists to promote Darwin is simply explained. Within the English-speaking world, Darwin’s theory of evolution remains the only scientific theory to be widely championed by the scientific community and widely disbelieved by everyone else. No matter the effort made by biologists, the thing continues to elicit the same reaction it has always elicited: You’ve got to be kidding, right? There is wide appreciation of the fact that if biologists are wrong about Darwin, they are wrong about life, and if they are wrong about life, they are wrong about everything.
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