I just received my first copy of my new subscription to “Wired,” and can’t help beginning with a rant on your cover article.
Dr. Dawkins and his anointed intellectual elite are archetypal of mans greatest weakness: (Arrogance). He has license to discount “fairy tales” and at the same time to fall back on his decades old Flying Spaghetti Monster response and his own fairy tail memes because he is a man of science. As he was quoted as saying, “…science can explain just about everything but not quite,..” and of course he is correct. The problems are twofold: First, because we can name something and explain it using empirical methods, we believe we have power over it. (Arrogance) Secondly, there’s the small matter that every few decades science revisits, reverses, negates its explanations and replaces them with new ones, and the “New Guard” gets to strut around in “The Kings New Clothes” until the next theorist points our their nakedness and takes his turn at wearing the mantle. Scientists say this is OK because it’s the nature of science. The process is to hypothesize, observe, measure, and seek repeatability of the observations and measurements. The small flaw here is all of this observational wonder is dependent upon our sensory inputs. Our eyes, for instance, as wonderful as they are can apprehend about 1/1024 of what science currently has deemed to be the range of the electromagnetic spectrum. What that means is we derive our sense of power over the universe from what we can see through a tiny crack in the wall of the universe around us. Science can explain almost everything, except we don’t know what gravity is and there are lot’s of explanations for the workings of the universe: relativity, quantum theory, entangled particles, chaos, string theory, M theory, the latest TOE (theory of everything)..who knows?
Among the greatest expressions of arrogance by our intellectual elite is that they deem anything that is not observable and explainable within the confines of their clubs rule book, not worthy of investigation and therefore simply nonexistent or superfluous.
Lastly they decide that they will “come out” with the gays and become the cornerstone of society. Can’t wait. Until then, all I have to say to Dr. Dawkins is “Nice outfit, who’s your tailor?”
Edd ParksLaguna Beach, CA
