05.13.09
Grafting Darwinism onto religion fails
The attempt to graft Darwinism onto religion, or vice versa, and the failure to succeed at that, as noted in previous post today, makes me think again of Hegel, again, discussed today, who never indulged in grafting.
I am not an Hegelian, but it is of interest to see the way that Hegel recast the elements of science and religion both in the creation of his philosophy/religion.
The results seem too strange today for those raised in science, and those results are certainly odd.
But history records the exact moment of the transition to scientism in the Left Hegelian critiques, viz. Marx, of Hegel, and the result of those critiques was hardly any more satisfactory.
(Actually, the man to go with here is Kant)
In general the Darwinists and Christians are at a stalemate, a stalemate among ideologists concerned to control public opinion, hence likely to be indifferent to the truth. Any old compromise effected by gluing incompatible things together will do, since Joe Public’s beliefs don’t matter, only who controls them, religious groups, or Big Science.
As Hegel understood, again saying this without accepting his result, the relation of science (or philosophy in his terms) and religion can’t be resolved by grafting: the whole stack of scrap metal must be thrown in the furnace for recasting.