This is a basic fallacy; it’s also one of the most lethal fallacies.
It's about directing our intellect for answers downwards, when it should be looking upwards. It's about intellectual hierarchy. It's about (the killing of) basic intellectual instincts. In the long run, it's murder.
The explanation of a compex thing must lie in something more complex. The
explanation of a beautiful thing is to be found in something more beautiful.
Only someone more intelligent can explain someone intelligent.
This instinct of the right direction in search of truth has – to a
large degree – been killed in people today. And the wisdom that reinforces the instinct has been – to a frightening
degree – censored, surpressed and banned in many places.
And to tell children that the explanation of their life bubbles unpleasantly
in some hot, repugnant soup brewing millions of years ago, and that the key to
their amazing minds lies among atoms, neurons and other inhuman grey matter - rather than with something, or someone!, more
beautiful, more amazing, more admirable than themselves is like telling them
that the world doesn't make sense.
It's like telling them that Harry is no more and Lord Voldermort has won.
It's like telling them that Harry is no more and Lord Voldermort has won.
(Which is more than sad: it's not true).
