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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...
...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 is simply a way of getting around the absence of the necessary fossil record. In fact, evolution, whether through "geological slowness" or "fits and starts," remains a flawed explanation for all of existence...
...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...
...shade past the ingénue stage, but not quite right yet for classic leading-lady roles, Margaux Hemingway, 27, apparently has to take what comes in between. And that means teaming up with Elliott Gould, 44, in something called Over the Brooklyn Bridge. (In a singular stroke of good judgment, the producers changed the film's title from My Darling Shiksa.) If her screen work seems a little pale, the Hemingway magic returns the moment she lapses into her first vocation as model. Even when she dons men's clothes in Paris for a fashion spread, Margaux...
...Gould has an eye for the unusual, indeed the bizarre, it is because, as he notes, "small items with big implications are my bread and butter." A confessed iconoclast, he likes nothing better than to take aim at major targets. Gould links that saintly man of the cloth and science, Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, to the infamous Piltdown hoax (the faked fossil, says Gould, was apparently a youthful prank by Teilhard), and displays irreverence for even his great hero Charles Darwin. Says Gould: "If I have one special ability, it is as a tangential thinker. I can make unusual...