God's Politics (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen Jay Gould American evolutionary biologist (1941-2002) + Sign…
Darwinaia (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
While Stephen Jay Gould’s thesis of non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA) has some merit, it is as a whole highly problematic. Although Gould does allow for some minor contention at the boundary between science and religion, his contention that science deals with only empirical questions and religion deals only with moral and spiritual questions is deeply flawed. While science...
Snarkmarket (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
In the fall of my freshman year of college, I read an essay by Stephen Jay Gould called “The Panda’s Thumb” (drawn, I think, from a book by the same name) for an Introduction to Philosophy class.* The premise was that evolution was best revealed not in examples of perfect adaptation of a species to [...]
Jesus Lives! (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... to someone? It makes no sense to express thankfulness to a purely naturalistic system. The late Stephen Jay Gould, an atheist and one of the foremost paleontologists and evolutionists of his day, described human life as “but a tiny, late-arising twig on life’s enormously arborescent bush.” Gould was a clear-headed evolutionist who took the theory of evolution to its ultimate...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould exposes the shameful history of research into race and IQ Earlier this year Glenn Beck, the US Fox News commentator, called President Barack Obama "a racist" with a "deep-seated hatred for white people and white culture" . The subtext of the statement seemed to be that it is justified to be fearful and suspicious of people...
Saber Point (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
... Robert Stacy McCain actually held the most liberal views on race of our group. He even used Stephen Jay Gould's arguments to rebut the book The Bell Curve . Personally, I thought Stephen Jay Gould something of an idiot and suspected McCain to be a closet liberal by the fact he cited Gould. However, my suspicions have since been laid to rest by Stacy's recent comments,...
SchansBlog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
... evolution has not been moving on a smooth road.... This reminds me of the speculations of Stephen Jay Gould-- in favor of "punctuated equilibrium" , an idea that militates against the gradual change speculated by Darwin.
Chasing Ray (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... which is a falsification. In some of the early [Disney] stuff, there was some skilful art. Stephen Jay Gould wrote an article about Mickey Mouse. Trace the original Mickey Mouse from the 1920s when he was this tricky, rascally figure, right down to this bland, consumer-advocate. These people, they're not sympathetic to the children learning. They're evil. If you want animated things,...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
... to the "non-overlapping magisteria" that were put forward by evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould (and in fact, Gould gets several nice mentions in The Case for God ). She refers frequently to the idea that, in the past, people tended to break arguments into two groups for which she uses the Greek terms logos and mythos . Logos reflects practical, immediate reasoning...
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Evolution News & Views (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
There's a narrative that should be familiar to most of us by now: a man is considered the great hero of the faith, a sign of hope for every true believer as he advances its claims, but secretly he struggles with his doubts about what he's preaching. This time, there's a twist to the old story: the faith the man espoused publicly was Darwin's theory, and the man was the brilliant Stephen Jay...
Religion Dispatches (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... environment, and in the last 50,000 years, natural selection has, as the renowned evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould put it, ‘become irrelevant’ for humans. Human innovation has excluded the environment as a driving force in our own evolution.But what if the answer is actually no? The implications are big. And what if the answer is not only ‘no,’ but also ‘we’re evolving faster than ever,...
Alternet (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Armstrong argues for an idea very similar to the "non-overlapping magisteria" that were put forward by evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould (and in fact, Gould gets several nice mentions in The Case for God). She refers frequently to the idea that, in the past, people tended to break arguments into two groups for which she uses the Greek terms logos and mythos. Logos reflects...
Magnificat (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
... devoted to Kircher drew scholars from over a dozen disciplines, including luminaries such as Stephen Jay Gould and Anthony Grafton, in an attempt to comprehend his massive output. Many institutions and libraries have followed with conferences, seminars, and special events on Kircher.
Laelaps (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... that it conveys a view of life that does not resemble our present understanding of life's history. Stephen Jay Gould addressed this two decades ago in his book Wonderful Life , in which he wrote; Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. Most people may know this as a phrase to be uttered, but not...
Inveresk Street Ingrate (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
I love this quote from the late Stephen Jay Gould that caught my eye on Facebook yesterday: “I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” Within minutes of spotting that clip I stumble across this picture - and its accompanying...
