Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Waking Up America
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There is a mini-review of Nicholas Wade's new book, Before the Dawn, by Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen that can be found here or here. An excerpt:
Wade, a science writer for The New York Times, is a robust and refreshing critic of scientific political correctness. There is nothing in the scientific record, he points out, to validate the romantic notion that primitive man was essentially peaceful. Similarly, he chides PC-addled scientists who insist there is no such thing as race when, just for starters, certain medicines work differently on whites than blacks.
But beyond those political battles, there is another:
It is an odd paradox of our times that as science relentlessly validates Darwin's genius, American social conservatives push back with idiocies like "intelligent design." They should read this book to appreciate what will happen to them. God willing, they'll evolve.
From his mouth . . .
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