08.29.10
Crews saw through Freud, but not Darwin
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20100828/prettifying-darwin/
The American literary critic Frederick Crews once spoke of defenders of evolutionary theory who attempt to make Darwinism appear more congenial to the Christian faith than it truly is. These defenders, Crews wrote, present a vision of Darwin and Darwinism that “is often prettified to make it safe for doctrines that he himself was sadly compelled to leave behind.” The prettifying of evolution continues, even in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
Crews was a penetrating critic of Freudian psychoanalysis, but the case of Darwin, and equally dubious case of bad science, seems to have escaped him.