Saturday, February 11, 2006

CBS Poll Says we Don't Believe Darwin

According to a CBS poll, have of American do NOT believe that evolution is a valid theory. Does that mean that most of us don't live with the kind of intellectual crisis of "normal nihilism" that Nietzsche assumed characterized the modern world?

I think the opposite. It shows how frigtening Darwin's ideas still are. We have not yet found a way to live with all of our feelings and instincts and to face them. Instead, we find ourselves burdened by the emptiness. We cannot yet value our own place in the universe, and this cannot but make me wonder if we have yet to recover a real sense of value for the divine. If we really valued God, why would we fear to face our own place in God's universe?

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