I recently YouTubed an 1965 tape of one of my favorite musicians, Brian Auger, doing a rendition of a blues song with Rod Stewart as a backup singer. I was shocked at how gospel sounding the song and the exuberant atmosphere it created was. And then it struck me what modern music really is – it all came from the church. It sought to recreate and comercialize the joyous pathos of the church but without the message of the Subject.
Same goes with modern science, especially the scientistic (the correct term) version preached by Dawkins, Weinberg and other of this odd sect’s prophets and evangelists. They blissfully ignore however, that both modern science and faith have the very same origin and core belief- the unprovable dogma that everything has an explanation. Newton explained once that his desire to discover the laws of nature was rooted in the belief that a wise Creator would design a universe to run on such principles.
Now that science has come full circle, climbing over the final precipices and, in the words of agnosic NASA astronomer Jastrow, “finding a group of theologians waiting there for centuries,” the phenomena reported in “Expelled” is the sad story of frightened reactionary anti-religionists, that has nothing to do with science.
Good article.
