Expelled - Intelectuales judíos contra los darwiníacos

Son las 11 y media de la noche, estoy leyendo la entrevista de Christopher Ferrara a David Berlinsky, me la pasó mi ahora proveedor de lecturas oficial.

Hay mucho para sacar de la misma y admito que algunas cosas me escapan o quedan con sabor a poco, esta entrevista científica es a todas luces filosófica; mejor aún teológica. Lean el texto en cuestión y maravíllense, está en inglés.

Ni bien las constelaciones del torrent se aliñen de la manera correcta voy a proceder a descargar Expelled, todo contraataque al asedio de los darwiníacos (¡Que buena palabra!) merece la pena ser visto. Me impresionó profundamente el hecho de que sufran persecución por hablar contracorriente:

CF: I believe you covered this in the documentary [“Expelled”]… which is just a staggering breakthrough, because here you have—I am thinking of the tableau at the end of the film—three Jewish intellectuals, standing by a remnant of the Berlin wall, lamenting the tyranny of the Darwinian establishment, after the film has drawn the explicit connection between Darwinian theory as a necessary (though not a sufficient) condition for Hitler. What happened to Ben Stein as a result of this film?

DB: That’s an interesting question, and I cannot speak authoritatively, because Ben Stein and I have met only a couple of times. So I really don’t know the details of his personal life. But from the point of view of his public life—that is, the figure he cuts, the positions he’s being offered, the role he can or cannot play, the degree of respect accorded, the historical value of his long associations in Hollywood—that’s all over. He’s just been ostracized—mercilessly ostracized…. The degree of vituperation to which he’s been exposed is just astonishing. Just astonishing.