{"id":381,"date":"2013-06-26T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/2013\/06\/26\/the-evidence-of-science-and-history-is-that\/"},"modified":"2018-03-04T20:27:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T20:27:58","slug":"the-evidence-of-science-and-history-is-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/2013\/06\/26\/the-evidence-of-science-and-history-is-that\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The evidence of science and history, is that humans are only ever partly and intermittently rational &hellip; modern humanists [believe] the solution is simple: human beings must in future be more reasonable. These enthusiasts for reason have not noticed that the idea that humans may one day be more rational requires a greater leap of faith than anything in religion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>John Gray,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0374229171\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0374229171&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thenatiinte-20\" target=\"_blank\">The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evidence of science and history, is that humans are only ever partly and intermittently rational &hellip; modern humanists [believe] the solution is simple: human beings must in future be more reasonable. These enthusiasts for reason have not noticed that the idea that humans may one day be more rational requires a greater leap of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/2013\/06\/26\/the-evidence-of-science-and-history-is-that\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-quotes","post_format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}