These exciting developments are very much under way. But until they are much better understood and applied. those who object to the manifest unfitness of Machine Age morality for a service economy (which overtook manufacturing in 1957) .Snd even more so for a full Information Age economy. Are trying to reject all of Darwinism. Not just Reform Darwinism with its entrenched interest groups.
It’s that simple. Practically every time
I talk to a Creationist and tell him that he couldn’t care fiddle about Genesis 1:25 but greatly cares about the lack of morals in his society. I get silent agreement. The New Creationist is not what Mr. Mencken characterized as the resentful rural inferior railing against the city folk but comes instead. demographically and educationally. from all over the place. as surveys have repeatedly shown.
In closing. let me recommend a new book that offers the best attempt yet at deriving morality from evolution. by Larry Arnhart. professor phone number list of political science at Northern Illinois University. though he should be at Harvard. were not that university under the nearly total control of the Reform Darwinists. The book is entitled Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature (Albany: State University of New York Press. 1998). He ropes in three of the non- Christian greats. Aristotle. David Hume. and Charles Darwin. and shows how their separate systems of morals are all highly compatible.
The last word as always. goes to the Sage of Baltimore
In reviewing his dispatches from Dayton. so nicely gathered by Miss Rodgers. I could not help but think that Mr. Mencken was right about this being first. last. and forever a Puritan country. As I read this quote. just substitute the shibboleths of the Machine Age for the religious beliefs of Dayton and imagine that you are not there but on a politically correct college campus:
Almost perfectly the ideal of those choose topics that will be interesting righteous and devoted men. Dr. Howard A. Kelly. the Rev. Dr. W.W. Davis. the Hon. Richard H. Edmonds and the Hon. Henry S. Dulaney. That is to say. evangelical Christianity is one hundred per cent triumphant.
A certain subterranean heresy
But it is so cowed that it is almost inarticulate. and at its worst it would pass for the strictest orthodoxy in such Sodoms of infidelity as Baltimore. It may seem fabulous. but it is a sober fact that a sound Episcopalian or even a bahrain lists Northern Methodist would be regarded as virtually an atheist in Dayton. Here the only genuine conflict is between true believers. Of a given text in Holy Writ one faction may say this thing and another that. but both agree unreservedly that the text itself is impeccable. and neither in the midst of the most violent disputations would venture to accuse the other of doubt.
