Word: evolutionism
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Snobbery is always preposterous but also sometimes useful. "The use of forks at table," observes the English writer Jasper Griffin, "seemed to our Tudor ancestors the height of affectation, so, the first to follow that Italian custom doubtless did so, in large part, to impress their neighbors with their sophistication...
Ghiselin has used some of the funds to travel to coral reefs in the Pacific, and to "fool around" in the Darwin archives at Cambridge University. In fact, Ghiselin decided to give Cambridge $5,000 to help preserve the archives, and he also donated $10,000 to the University of...
More than any other science writer, Stephen Jay Gould [May 30] has assisted my biology students in gaining insights into the joys of natural history and the intrigue of evolution. His writings have also increased my understanding of God.
It is interesting that Stephen Jay Gould's theory that "evolution moves not with geological slowness, as Darwin has insisted, but in abrupt fits and starts, interspersed with long periods of no change in species" has put him at odds with the prevailing Darwinian doctrine. Gould's thesis...
Gould should know that a basic tenet of scientific method is that phenomena must be repeatable and verifiable through observation. The law of gravity is easily verifiable; the concept of evolution remains only a theory precisely because it cannot be repeated and verified through observation.