TED 英语演讲：可爱,性感,甜,搞笑 Cute, sexy, sweet, funny 演讲者：Dan Dennett | 中英对比演讲稿 | Im going around the world giving talks about Darwin, and usually what Im talking about is Darwins strange inversion of reasoning. Now that title, that phrase, comes from a critic, an early critic, and this is a passage that I just love, and would like to read for you. 我常常在世界各地做关于达尔文的演讲，一般我都要讲到的是达尔文奇怪的反向逻辑。这个头衔，这个名词，来自于一个批判，一个早先的批判。我喜爱这篇文章，很乐意给大家念一下。 In the theory with which we have to deal, Absolute Ignorance is the artificer; so that we may enunciate as the fundamental principle of the whole system, that, in order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. This proposition will be found on careful examination to express, in condensed form, the essential purport of the Theory, and to express in a few words all Mr. Darwins meaning; who, by a strange inversion of reasoning, seems to think.Absolute Ignorance fully qualified to take the place of Absolute Wisdom in the achievements of creative skill. 这个我们要探讨的理论之中，全然无知变成了制造者;那么让我们清楚阐明这个理论体系的根本原则，那就是，在制造一个完美的机器之前，完全没有必要知道如何来制造它。这种说法被建立在详尽的讨论之上来传达这个理论的要义，也传达了达尔文先生的全部意思;他用这样一种奇怪的反向逻辑似乎认为绝对的无知完全有资格取代绝对的智慧来完成需要制造性技能的工作。 Exactly. Exactly. And it is a strange inversion. A creationist pamphlet has this wonderful page in it: TestTwo: Do you know of any building that didnt have a builder? Yes/No. Do you know of any painting that didnt have a painter? Yes/No. Do you know of any car that didnt have a maker? Yes/No. If you answered Yes ...
