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...Harvard’s Core Curriculum next year. One of Harvard’s greatest assets is its roster of noteworthy professors who still remain accessible to large numbers of students outside their individual departments through Core classes. In the tradition of late Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould, big names and great thinkers like Clowes Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner have helped to stimulate a broad-based interest in the sciences at the College; Pinker’s addition will make sure this important practice continues. Though Pinker will continue with his research, a balance between ground...
Appealing to the authority of Stephen Jay Gould and Clinton Richard Dawkins is irrelevant in the marketplace of ideas. Gould and Dawkins advocate circling the wagons against a common enemy, not meeting it in battle. This may or may not be a clever political move, but it has nothing to do with the strength or weakness of an argument...
Human history shows that insular priesthoods, religious, secular and scientific form again and again to keep outsiders out and keep insiders privileged. This may or may not be the case with Stephen Jay Gould and company. The only way to tell is to honestly and fairly look at the evidence. Science prospers in political systems where the free flow of information and ideas is allowed. Don’t let The Crimson become part of the problem due to a naive view of human history and human nature...
Just months before he died, Harvard professor Stephen J. Gould co-signed a letter with his scientific rival Richard Dawkins. In it, these two eminent biologists vowed never to debate the proponents of “intelligent design theory.” This theory holds that the complexity of life could not have arisen through the chance mutations and natural selection that underlie contemporary evolutionary theory. Rather, “intelligent design” says the source of evolution is some unknown, mysterious intelligence that fiddles with our genes...
...Staff writer Jessica E. Gould can be reached at gould@fas.harvard.edu...