Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 — May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. (Wikipedia) He and Niles Eldredge developed the theory of punctuated equilibrium, a theory that states that phenotypic [...]
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Batten #2: Transitional Fossils and Quote Mining
March 16th, 2008 · 23 Comments
Categories: Religion and Science
Tags: Creationism · Fossils · Quote Mining · Stephen Jay Gould
A Synchronicity?
November 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Here is an example of what science is about…
Three weeks ago, I experienced what some might call a synchronicity (a concept introduced by Carl Jung). Wikipedia defines it as follows:
Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally unrelated. In order to be synchronous, the [...]
Categories: Religion and Science
Tags: Freethinking Maties · God · NOMA · Science · Stephen Jay Gould · Synchronicity · Theology


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