Saturday, March 21, 2009

Dated and confused ...

... Our Two Cultures. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The Industrial Revolution, [Snow] writes, occurred “without anyone,” including intellectuals, “noticing what was happening.” But at the same time, he argues that 20th-century progress was being stymied by the indifference of poets and novelists. That’s why he wrote “The Two Cultures.” So which is it? Is science an irrepressible agent of change, or does it need top-down direction?

Well, it would be a good idea if those in the humanities had a better grasp of science and if those in the sciences were better acquainted with the humanities, especially philosophy. My principal objection to The God Delusion wasn't that it argued against the existence of God, but that it argued against it so incompetently.

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