![]() ![]() In his essay Eiseley, himself an anthropologist, distills his core belief: Snow called this dichotomy “The Two Cultures,” a phrase Loren Eiseley references in “The Illusion of the Two Cultures,” which appeared in The American Scholar in 1964. Such fact-centrism unfortunately sets science at odds with the arts, which are being cut even more deeply. But from the same mouths come cuts in funding for basic research, or else strings attached. Science is set forth as the savior of the nation: we will innovate our way out of this recession, our ingenuity is our greatest asset. Political rhetoric for math and science funding abounds, but creationism, in some corners, has equal footing with evolution. Science is in a strange predicament these days. ![]()
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