and nobody would believe that nowadays."

如今就没人再相信了
But in fact,the view is often hold--held--

但事实上经常有人支持这个观点
Louis Menand in a New Yorker article a few years ago wrote, "

路易斯·莫南德几年前在纽约客上写道
Every aspect of life

生命的任何一面
has a biological foundation in exactly the same sense,

都有一个相同意义上的生物基础
which is that unless it was biologically possible

除非在生物上可能
it wouldn't exist.

否则它就不存在
After that it's up for grabs."

在生物性上可能后就生命就产生了
And this is in the context of an argument that evolution can't tell us

这在一篇说进化论无法告诉我们
anything about what's most interesting about people.

任何有关人类最有趣一面的文章中
Menand is not--

莫南德不是
is an educated, intelligent scholar.

是一个受过教育智慧的学者