Gould, Jay : (1836-92), American capitalist, made his millions as railroad mogul.
... Darwin Wars Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. Jacques Monod Stephen Gould and Punctuated Equilibrium Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) and Richard Dawkins had much in common. Gould “filled the same role for North America as Dawkins does for Britain.” 1 Both were evolutionary biologists, deeply involved as students, researchers... true religion.” On Gould’s side there were Richard Lewontin, Steven Rose, and many of the younger scientists who had grown up during the turbulent years of the Vietnam War and leaned towards the left. These were “more ecumenically atheist. They do not even believe in science as an expression of religious yearning … The fact remains that the parties do exist, and that Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins... × id., pp. 429, 305. × Stephen Jay Gould: Punctuated Equilibrium ., pp. 9-10 (italics added). × id., pp. 26, 29, 31. ...
... breeding with its original stock. Eventually, the isolated population would become so different that biological differences would prevent inbreeding. Page 32 In 1972, Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge asserted that evolutionists had become too rigid in insisting on gradualism. They put forth a new theory that reduced gradualism to a rare event and named the dominant phenomenon ...
... (HUP), 2006 Gjertsen, Derek: Science and Philosophy – Past and Present , Penguin Books, 1989 Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas: The Occult Roots of Nazism , New York University Press, 1994 Gould, Stephen Jay: Punctuated Equilibrium , The Belknap Press (HUP), 2007 — Rocks of Ages , Ballantine Books, 1999 Grafen, Alan, and others (ed.): Richard Dawkins , Oxford University Press, 2006 Greenspan... Stenger, Victor J.: God – The Failed Hypothesis , Prometheus Books, 2007 Stengers, Isabelle, and others: 100 mots pour commencer à penser les sciences , Le Seuil, 2003 Sterelny, Kim: Dawkins vs. Gould , Icon Books, 2007 Susskind, Leonard: The Cosmic Landscape , Back Bay Books, 2006 Swyngedauw, Jean: Á l’origine de la vie le hasard? Éditions de l’O.E.I.L., 1990 Talbot, Michael: Beyond ...
... group from breeding with its original stock. Eventually, the isolated population would become so different that biological differences would Page 5 prevent inbreeding. In 1972, Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge asserted that evolutionists had become too rigid in insisting of gradualism. They put forth a new theory that reduced gradualism to a rare event and named the dominant phenomenon ...
... × André Pichot: op. cit., p. 941. × Stephen Jay Gould: “More Things in Heaven and Earth”, in Hilary and Steven Rose: Alas Poor Darwin, p. 98. × André... because similar ideas, labeled ‘neo-Lamarckism’, keep reappearing in biology.” And Stephen Gould wrote: “Cultural change manifestly operates on the radically different substrate of Lamarckian inheritance, or the passage of acquired characteristics to subsequent generations. [Even a well-read biologist like the late Gould still identified Lamarck with ‘acquired characteristics’.] Evolutionists have long understood... possible occasion. Thanks to the prestige of Darwinism, gradualism won the day – for more than one and a half century, till the great biological extinctions had become incontrovertible, and Stephen Gould and Niles Eldredge formulated their theory of “punctuated equilibrium” in the 1970s, causing a revival of the battle between fixism and gradualism. Linnaeus had classified Homo sapiens among the ...
... a third problem was the apparent persistence of gaps or discontinuities in the fossil record. It was this last fact that gave rise to saltation theories. Now associated with the names of Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge, saltation theories opposed dogmatic gradualism already in Darwin’s days. They hold that evolution has not happened gradually, tiny step by tiny step, but as it were in sudden eruptions... × Edward Larson: op. cit., p. 237. × Stephen Jay Gould: “Evolution as Fact and Theory” in Discover , May 1981. × John Horgan: The Undiscovered Mind ... continue to label their new synthesis of the evolutionary doctrines ‘Darwinism’ and thereby perpetuate the distortion of the history of biology and the never-ending discussions about it. Even Stephen Gould, who in 1980 declared the New Synthesis effectively dead after launching the anti-Darwinian theory of “punctuated equilibrium,” will shout his love of Darwin from the widely read pages of his writings ...
... unorthodox items, it is with a sauce of denigrating irony. All the same: “Darwin is not a strict Darwinian,” and the man who said so was none other than a renowned self-proclaimed Darwinian, Stephen Jay Gould. 7 In fact, as we will see, Darwin was anything but a strict Darwinian in the current sense. “Darwin must be distinguished from modern Darwinism. One of the primary justifications for examining... that the complexity in nature can only have been fashioned by a special Intelligence; and there is the very scientific but fiercely opposed theory of ‘punctuated equilibrium’ formulated by Stephen Gould and Niles Eldredge. This enumeration is far from complete but will have to do for the moment. The situation is actually such that, some say, every evolutionary biologist has his own theory. Then ...
... declaration of the death of God resounded through the vaults of the Western mind. Today this mentality has not softened among some of the most prominent savants and widely read publicists. Stephen Jay Gould, for instance, wrote: “Only one causal force produces evolutionary change in Darwin’s world: the unconscious struggle among individual organisms to promote their own personal reproductive success... the name of “common ancestor.” Punctuated equilibrium, the sudden appearance of new species, became a fashionable biological term only in 1972, when the like-named theory was launched by Eldredge and Gould. That the human species has hardly if at all evolved, as evidenced by some of the splendid paleolithic cave paintings from 40,000 years ago, is now commonly accepted. The age of the neolithic civilizations ...
... × Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion , p. 55. × Stephen Jay Gould: Rock of Ages , pp. 4, 6. × Richard Dawkins: River out of Eden , p. 37. ... mysticism are still in the fact-accumulation stage, and may always be. … The fact is, neuroscientists cannot explain how the brain carries out the most elementary acts of cognition.” 18 Stephen Gould, an agnostic materialist, but a cultured one (which is not as common as one might wish), has introduced a much discussed concept in his Rock of Ages : NOMA. “To say for all my colleagues and for the... cannot comment on it as scientists.” 19 NOMA stands for “non-overlapping magisteria,” which means that science and religion both rule in their own domain and cannot or should not be in conflict. As Gould sees it – and many agree with him – the magisterium of science covers the empirical realm of fact and theory; the magisterium of religion extends over questions of ultimate meaning and moral value. ...
... animalized humans, on an average, seem to care little about it. If scientists say so, it must be true. Besides, who still cares about values, metaphysics, or – God forbid! – “mysticism”? The late Stephen Jay Gould, a Harvard biologist and science writer of world-fame, was one of the chief propagators of the idea that human beings were a fluke, not an inevitable outcome of increasing mammal intelligence. He... be the ultimate grandparent of all vertebrate animals. But if any other strategic link in the evolutionary chain had not been there before or after Pikaia , we would not have been here either! Gould: “We are here because an odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age 15 ; because... × Russell on Religion , p. 93. × At the time Gould wrote these words, it was not yet known that the earth had frozen over (“snowball earth”) at least two times, 2.5 billion and 800 to 600 million years ago. ...
... variant group from breeding with its original stock. Eventually, the isolated population would become so different that biological differences would prevent inbreeding. In 1972, Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge asserted that evolutionists had become too rigid in insisting on gradualism. They put forth a new theory that reduced gradualism to a rare event and named the dominant phenomenon ...
... because they know how much plain luck is involved in evolution. Harvard palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould has said that if the great experiment of life were re-run a million times over, chances are it would never again give rise to mammals, let alone mammals intelligent enough to invent television.” 32 (Gould’s opinion, however, is limited, for it takes gross material evolution as the only possibility ...
... the terrestrial evolution contained elements which would only later enter the scientific discussion about the development of the life-forms. In those texts from the Arya we find what Eldredge and Gould would call “punctuated equilibrium” in 1972; the discussion of life in plants and a rather developed mind in higher animals; the statement that species, including the human, cannot evolve beyond themselves... scientifically argued books like Rare Earth by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee, The Eerie Silence and The Goldilocks Enigma by Paul Davies, and The Privileged Planet by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards. The direct and continuous influence of the mind on the body has time and again been highlighted by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, especially in matters of health and the doctor-patient r ...
... (Nayana) 257-8, 339, 600 Ganapatram Gupta 278 Gandhi, Mahatma 118, 186, 215, 261, 277, 404, 426, 446, 451, 457-8, 485, 810 Gin, V.V. and Mrs Saraswati 778, 821 Gokak,V.K. 173ff Gould, F.G. 480 Guru Nanak 123, 180, 317 Heilbroner, R.L. 732 Himanshu Niyogi 662 Hitler, Adolf 181, 208, 395ff, 409ff, 422ff, 441ff, 593 Hofman, Dr Albert 742 Hopkins, Gerard Manley... Srinivasa 173ff Iyer, C.P. Ramaswami 715 Janina 701 Janine (Morisset) Panier 477 Janet McPheeters see Shantimayi Jatti, B.D. 817, 821 Jawaharlal Nehru 404, 457, 595-6, 624, 716 Jay Holmes Smith 547-8, 589 Jaya Devi 233-4, 236, 239, 242 Jayantilal Parekh 691 Jesus Christ 180, 317, 482, 762 Jinnah, M.A. 446-7, 451, 458, 463 John of the Cross, Saint 41, 112 ... 319, 341, 549 Amrita 91-2 Page 909 André 478 Baron 662-3 Bibhas 670 Champaklal 212, 222, 420 Chidanandam 231, 765 Dilip Kumar 260 Ganapati Muni 258 Ganapatram 278 Huta 588 Jay Smith 547-8, 589 Jaya 239 Kanailal 218, 224 Kapali Sastry 256-7, 288-9 Kodandarama 212 Lizelle 49 Maurice 369 Minnie 765 Mishra 575 Mrityunjoy 270, 289, 364 Munshi 537 Narayan Prasad 434 ...
... teaching that evolution is nothing but the work of chance in an accidental universe, and that it is not progressive. Consequently the appearance of the human being is purely a matter of luck. Stephen Jay Gould, for instance, “was adamantly opposed to progress, speaking of it as ‘a noxious, culturally embedded, untestable, nonoperational, untractable idea‘ that must be replaced if we wish to understand the ...
... record suddenly, not connected with their ancestors by a series of intermediaries . Indeed there are rather few cases of continuous series of gradually evolving species.” 15 In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge came forward with their theory of punctuated equilibrium: species have appeared suddenly, fully formed, and have kept their form for the duration of their existence. (The most striking ...
... myself about the eternal future; & even tho' science should hurl the most formidable polysyllables in its vocabulary at me, I do not know that I should greatly care, and I think Messrs Rockefeller & Jay Gould & millions more were or are in hearty agreement with me. You say the genus is eternal? But I believe this is not the teaching of Science. As I understand it, man is only an animal, a particular sort ...
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