Evolution is not proven in the fossil record Nov 15, 2009
Stephen Jay Gould, the leading evolutionist in America, summed it up this way: "The fossil record today on the whole looks very much as it did in 1859, despite the embarrassing fact that an enormous amount of fossil hunting has gone on in the intervening years." ... ""Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false," -- Stephen Jay Gould.Sloppy letters come from sloppy minds. ". (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Life After Death: The Message of Evolution Nov 12, 2009
This position has been argued most eloquently by Stephen Jay Gould. In Full House, Gould points out that the earliest forms of life were bacteria. (Townhall.com)
Down to the nuts and bolts Nov 6, 2009
Author: Stephen Jay Gould, famous biologist and the most gifted essayist of science this past century. Motorcycle: Never ridden one but if I did it would be an old Triumph or Vespa. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
The message of evolution Nov 6, 2009
Several years ago, biologist Stephen Jay Gould famously argued that if we could re-run the tape of evolution from an identical starting point, there wouldn't be humans but rather radically different creatures populating the planet. Insisting that we are material products of a random process, science historian William B. Provine concludes that "when we die, we die, and that is the end of us.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Darwin was right - up to a point Sep 30, 2009
The idea that evolution is random in the sense we're talking about here, which is a completely different subject to the randomness of mutations usually talked about, was put forward, with very little argument, by Stephen Jay Gould (usually regarded as an opponent of Dawkins and the so-called neo-Darwinists) and never part of any evolutionary orthodoxy. Conway-Morris has been right to take this idea on. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
The Left's IQ Problem Sep 1, 2009
Stephen Jay Gould s Mismeasure of Man, published in 1981, dismissed IQ research as pseudoscience used to pursue elitist and racist agendas. Much has changed since then, as psychologist Richard Nisbett s new book, Intelligence and How to Get It, demonstrates. (The American Conservative)
Ready, aim, miss Jul 25, 2009
She also revives the old argument that Stephen Jay Gould had with Mr Dawkins, about how smoothly evolution progresses. Gould, a palaeontologist, observed that there are long periods of stasis in the fossil record, which is true, and inferred from this that selfish genery is therefore wrong because it predicts continual change, which is questionable. (The Economist)
Science on the screen: a biologist does Hollywood Jun 16, 2009
Even when a studio guy is just dismissing me, even when Stephen Jay Gould yelled at me for three hours straight (Olson was a teaching assistant of the famed paleontologist author), part of me was thinking, 'This is a beautiful scene, this guy is really ripping into me. The low moments in life are all part of the story too. (USA Today -- Tech)
Let the 200-Day Average Be the Boss May 21, 2009
-- Stephen Jay Gould. The late, great scientist reminds us all that the quest for knowledge should never be stymied by a desire for agreement. (Human Events Online)
Scholar Richard Milner sings songs of evolution Mar 21, 2009
He shared a passion for animals and evolution with his childhood chum Stephen Jay Gould, the late, great Harvard paleontologist who remained a lifelong friend. As kids, they hung out at the Bronx Zoo and the American Museum of Natural History (Milner returned years later to work as a senior editor at the museum's Natural History magazine). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
New Book Offers Evolution Skeptics Comic Relief Feb 21, 2009
Among these funny and provocative critiques is Allison's perspective on the strange fact that humanoid apes evolved so quickly into humans: "And what's even more tragic than this is that according to the fossil record, that one particular monkey's offspring didn't actually evolve gradually into a human as most evolutionists would have us believe, but made a rapid jump from monkey to man. According to Stephen Jay Gould, professor of geology at Harvard University, 'the fossil record still... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Robert Wyatt: Evolution doesn't counter faith Feb 18, 2009
In fact, working biologists rely more than ever on Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, as noted by Athens Academy's Richard Patterson in a Feb. 8 Banner-Herald story headlined "." Also contrary to the Tuesday writer's implication, Harvard's Stephen Jay Gould, despite questioning the tempo of evolution, never denied its basic premise. By the way, it also is simply not true that Gould "was an unwavering atheist." Like many evolutionary biologists, he viewed his Jewish religious... (Athens Banner-Herald)
James Robertson: Evolutionary theory discredited Feb 17, 2009
Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould, who died of cancer in 2002, was an unwavering atheist and evolutionist. He accepted the fact the fossil record speaks of sudden changes rather than continuous changes and declared that the latter view of evolution was "effectively dead." The nail was driven in the evolutionary coffin in April 1992 with the discovery of "Big Bang ripples" by NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite. (Athens Banner-Herald)
You are here: Your microspot in the universe Feb 16, 2009
The result, when it finally came, was, as Stephen Jay Gould once put it, "the greatest ideological revolution in the history of science:" the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. Although he put off the question of human origins for a later book (The Descent of Man, 1871), the writing was on the wall: Humans were a part of the animal kingdom; we and our closest cousins, the great apes, evolved from an ape-like ancestor in the remote past. (Toronto Star)
Dismal science education explains dispute over Darwin Feb 15, 2009
For the most part, I generally agree with the late Stephen Jay Gould, science and religion are two non-overlapping magisteria that do not dance well together but can remain best of friends. Brinkley is dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and holds the William R. Brinkley BRASS Chair at Baylor College of Medicine. (Houston Chronicle)
What Does Darwin Mean to You? Feb 12, 2009
Stephen Jay Gould suggested a truce of the latter sort in proposing the notion of Nonoverlapping Magisteria (NOMA): evolutionists should focus their efforts on the ages of rocks, theologians on the rock of ages, and neither should tread on the others domain. This approach brokers a tentative peace between Park Place and Boardwalk, but avoids the uncomfortable conflict that Darwin likely feared for Emmacan religion and evolution occupy the same home. (Religion Dispatches)
Darwin the Comedian. Now that's entertainment! Feb 11, 2009
Fossilface grew up to become an evolutionary biologist better known as Stephen Jay Gould. Dino grew up to become Charles Darwin. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
