Acaba de publicarse (Regnery Publishing, Inc.; 2 de Junio de 2009) el libro:
The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin
Cuyo título en español es:
El mito de Darwin: La vida y mentiras de Charles Darwin
Su autor es
Benjamin WikerY la breve reseña de la editorial dice así:
Wiker offers a critical analysis of Charles Darwin's theories as well
as the social, scientific, and religious implication of his work,
leading readers to the inevitable truth about Darwin's powerful, and,
as the author believes, poisonous legacy.Que traduzco al español:
Wiker ofrece un análisis crítico de las teorías de Charles Darwin así
como la implicación social, científica y religiosa de su trabajo,
llevando a los lectores a la verdad inevitable acerca del poderoso y
como cree el autor, envenenado legado de Darwin.Algunos de sus párrafos:
It is a myth that evolutionary theory
must coincide with Darwinian theory. It is a myth based on
Darwin’s fame, but it has distorted our understanding of the scientific
evidence and the debates about it.
Darwin’s triumph has been to set ideological atheism as the
default position of science; as the prism through which scientists
are supposed to see the world and conduct their work. It is just
as distorting to science as ideological Marxism is to the study of
economics. It offers an answer for everything; it is an answer to
which facts are twisted to conform; but it might be the wrong
answer.
But the problem with Darwinism is not just science. As we
will soon see, Darwin’s intense desire to set forth a God-free
view of evolution brought him to offer an account of human
development in which everything about human beings, even
their moral capacities, is explained entirely as the result of natural
selection, that is, of the struggle for survival where the more
fit eliminate the less fit. So-called “social Darwinism” is not, as
is typically assumed today, a misapplication of Darwinism, it is
Darwinism, and it provides an open rationale for eugenics and
racism. This had abhorrent consequences in the twentieth century;
and unless we understand Darwinism’s flaws, there is no
reason to believe it will not have equally abhorrent consequences
in our own.