VN AND CREATIONISM
From
what we know about VN as a scientist, we can say he was not a supporter of
creationism. More to the point, his disapproval for creationism can be
discerned from his well-known lecture “Good Readers and Good Writers”:
“However, let us not confuse the physical eye, that monstrous piece of
evolution, with the mind, an even more monstrous achievement” (Nabokov,
V. “Good Readers and Good Writers.” In Nabokov 1980, 3). Considering
creationism argues that the eye could not have evolved through gradual
improvements and must have been created, the fact VN emphasized its
evolutionary nature reads like a trace of polemics with the creationist platform.
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