Today at Access Research Network: My review of Darwin Day in America
Darwin’s theory of evolution – essentially, that life, including human life, occurs without purpose and perishes without consequence – popularized points of view that would have been considered unacceptable to most Westerners in earlier times. Indeed, that has always been its greatest appeal, to judge from the thousands of editorials on how Darwin’s great feat was to show that man is just a two-legged animal – a biped who affects trousers. Excerpt: West quotes political philosopher Leo Strauss, explaining that scientific materialism triesto understand the higher in terms of the lower: the human in terms of the subhuman, the rational in terms of the subrational (p. 4). To test his assumption, take a pop science mag and make a mental Read More ›