Tom Wolfe, Jefferson lecture, ‘06
http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/wolfe/lecture.html
Ladies and Gentlemen, this evening it is my modest intention to tell you in the short time we have together . . . everything you will ever need to know about the human beast.
I take that term, the human beast, from my idol, Emile Zola, who published a novel entitled The Human Beast in 1888, just 29 years after Darwin’s The Origin of Species broke the stunning news that Homo sapiens—or Homo loquax, as I call him—was not created by God in his own image but was precisely that, a beast, not different in any essential way from snakes with fangs or orangutangs . . . or kangaroos. . . or the fang-proof mongoose. Darwin’s doctrine, Evolution, leapt from the pages of a scientific monograph into every level of society in Europe and America with sensational suddenness. It created a sheerly dividing line between the God-fearing bourgeoisie who were appalled, and those people of sweetness and light whose business it was to look down at the bourgeosie from a great height.
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Somebody help me out here!
I clicked on the actual article and was sincerely expecting a DEBATE! As I see it, there was NO debate. If there was, Weikart got his clock cleaned!
As Rush often says: If you are opposed to someone’s position on something, the first thing you DO NOT DO is to accept their PREMISE!
Weikart accepted the PREMISE of Darwinism, which to a THINKING person, is so assinine and indefensible as to defy comment! The only reason Darwinism enjoys the primacy that it does today is because the members of that crowd, over the years, have worked their way into all the liberal institutions, from education to legislation.
That’s the point of Stein’s movie. We’ve got to force the Darwinists to an actual debate! The monkey progeny crowd will hold preeminence as long as they never have to truly debate anyone or PROVE any of the barf they spew in the name of “EVIDENCE”. As the fine article in the recent issue of ICR’s “ACTS & FACTS” stated: In EVERY place where there SHOULD be some EVIDENCE, if Darwinism were a FACT, there is NONE! Zero! Zip! Nada! Bupkis!
At this late date, if they HAVE anything besides WORDS, let them lay their cards on the table! Evidence! Let’s SEE it!
No more of their coulda, mighta male bovine feces! Let’s see the EVIDENCE!
Not a comment on evolution, but I have trouble taking anyone seriously who credits “The New Deal” with western prosperity.