Not exact matches
He was very effective at clearly
explaining the challenge which
modern science makes to our culture and the outlines of the appropriate response, particularly that made
by Stanley Jaki.
Lewontin thus saw creationism as falsified not so much
by any discoveries of
modern science as
by universal human experience, a thesis that does little to
explain either why so absurd a notion has attracted so many adherents or why we should expect it to lose ground in the near future.
Most educated people today, however, though aware that there is much we can not yet
explain, are so conditioned
by the world view of
modern science that they find it hard to accept anything that runs counter to the normal processes of nature.
[Response: Because of nearly two decades of
science showing that
modern warming can not be
explained by natural factors.