Religion & Law

Conserving the Environment

By John Pieret

A thought:

[H]ere is Ben Stein, sneering and scoffing at Darwin, a man who spent decades observing and pondering the natural world ? that world Stein glimpses through the window of his automobile now and then, when he?s not chattering into his cell phone. Stein claims to be doing it in the name of an alternative theory of the origin of species: Yet no such alternative theory has ever been presented, nor is one presented in the movie, nor even hinted at. There is only a gaggle of fools and fraudsters, gaping and pointing like Apaches on seeing their first locomotive: ?Look! It moves! There must be a ghost inside making it move!?

The ?intelligent design? hoax is not merely non-science, nor even merely anti-science; it is anti-civilization. It is an appeal to barbarism, to the sensibilities of those Apaches, made by people who lack the imaginative power to know the horrors of true barbarism.

- John Derbyshire, "A Blood Libel on Our Civilization," National Review Online, April 28, 2008

Full post as published by Thoughts in a Haystack on April 29, 2008 (boomark / email).