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...Creationists are laughable—most people with a semi-rational approach to the world and half a brain will agree on that. To engage the particulars of the creationist position is to implicitly grant it a level of credibility and legitimacy that it does not deserve...
...talking, of course, about the creationist fools who continue to make a mockery of themselves almost a century after the Scopes trial...
With any luck, perhaps the next doyen of the pro-science, anti-creationist movement will be another Harvard professor. Nothing, indeed, could be a more apt or vital part of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ professed commitment to the biological sciences, and nothing could better honor professor Gould’s legacy...
Much as Gould likes to dodge the term “scientific celebrity” during the interview, his popularity and his widely publicized anti-creationist, anti-sociobiological arguments have lent that very term to his persona. As George V. Lauder, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, commented in an email, “[Gould] is probably the best known evolutionary biologist of his generation. His popularity is due to his ability to choose what seem like small features of the biological world…and use these examples as a launching...
...Darwinism holds a monopoly over our public school system and over our public money,” Wells said. “This is illegitimate in the same way that creationist monopoly is not OK. We do not want a monopoly of one viewpoint...