Someone posted this on another list I am on. It's from M. Scott Peck, "The
Road Less Traveled," (1978):
"Another reason that scientists are so prone to throw out the baby
[religion] with the bath water is that science itself, as I have suggested, is a
religion. The neophyte scientist, recently come or converted to the world
view of science, can be every bit as fanatical as a Christian crusader or
soldier of Allah. This is particularly the case when we have come to science
from a culture and home in which belief in God is firmly associated with
ignorance, superstition, rigidity and hypocrisy. Then we have emotional as
well as intellectual motives to smash the idols of primitive faith. A mark of
maturity in scientists, however, is their awareness that science may be as
subject to dogmatism as any other religion." (pp. 222-223)
and
"Another major reason that scientists are prone to throw the baby out with
the bath water is that they do not see the baby. Many scientists simply do
not look at the evidence of the reality of God. They suffer from a kind of
tunnel vision, a psychologically self-imposed set of blinders which prevents
them from turning their attention to the realm of the spirit." (pp. 225-226).
If the cap fits...!
Steve
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"It takes a while to realize that the 'thousands' of intermediates being
referred to have no obvious relevance to the origin of lions and jellyfish and
things. Most of them are simply varieties of a particular kind of creature,
artificially arranged in a certain order to demonstrate Darwinism at work,
and then rearranged every time a new discovery casts doubt upon the
arrangement." (Hitching F., "The Neck of the Giraffe: Or Where Darwin
Went Wrong," Pan: London UK, 1982, p27)
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