Потому что верно
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nu57(Хотела сказать тут в комментах, но решила не мусорить и вынести отдельным постом).
Блестящий, рациональный и очень уважаемый мной именно за трезвость и разумную иронию историк Пол Джонсон написал:
"How long will Darwin continue to repose on his high but perilous pedestal? I am beginning to wonder... The likelihood that Darwin’s eventual debacle will be sensational and brutal is increased by the arrogance of his acolytes, by their insistence on the unchallengeable truth or the theory of natural selection – which to them is not a hypothesis but a demonstrated fact, and its critics mere flat-earthers – and by their success in occupying the commanding heights in the university science departments and the scientific journals, denying a hearing to anyone who disagrees with them. I detect a groundswell of discontent at this intellectual totalitarianism, so unscientific by its very nature. It is wrong that any debate, especially one on so momentous a subject as the origin of species, and the human race above all, should be arbitrarily declared to be closed, and the current orthodoxy set in granite for all time... It is inevitable that Darwinism, at least in its fundamentalist form, will come crashing down. The only question is: when?"
Ни в коем случае не хочу уподобиться автору из заголовка поста, и атеисткой тоже не являюсь. Но это высказывание напомнило мне разговор о фанатиках-фундаменталистах, безапелляционно утверждающих, что убивать людей и творить над ними насилие нехорошо, и совершенно не желающих рассматривать альтернативную точку зрения.
Блестящий, рациональный и очень уважаемый мной именно за трезвость и разумную иронию историк Пол Джонсон написал:
"How long will Darwin continue to repose on his high but perilous pedestal? I am beginning to wonder... The likelihood that Darwin’s eventual debacle will be sensational and brutal is increased by the arrogance of his acolytes, by their insistence on the unchallengeable truth or the theory of natural selection – which to them is not a hypothesis but a demonstrated fact, and its critics mere flat-earthers – and by their success in occupying the commanding heights in the university science departments and the scientific journals, denying a hearing to anyone who disagrees with them. I detect a groundswell of discontent at this intellectual totalitarianism, so unscientific by its very nature. It is wrong that any debate, especially one on so momentous a subject as the origin of species, and the human race above all, should be arbitrarily declared to be closed, and the current orthodoxy set in granite for all time... It is inevitable that Darwinism, at least in its fundamentalist form, will come crashing down. The only question is: when?"
Ни в коем случае не хочу уподобиться автору из заголовка поста, и атеисткой тоже не являюсь. Но это высказывание напомнило мне разговор о фанатиках-фундаменталистах, безапелляционно утверждающих, что убивать людей и творить над ними насилие нехорошо, и совершенно не желающих рассматривать альтернативную точку зрения.
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Date: 2012-09-11 07:27 pm (UTC)