> And then later he says "there nothing theological in what I say".
>
> Whereas you might think Gould is having an ironical atatck on the fundamentalism
> of Ultra-Darwinists by showing the latter autocontradict by not heeding
> Darwin's own words, Gould is himself autocontradictory (heed Darwin, I'm
> not a fundamentalist as you are, Darwin speaks THE TRUTH).
>
It always amazed my in my college days that so many professors went around
saying that science is not a religion and then treating their opinions
as if they were handed down directly from God. I wrote a paper disputing
Noam Chomsky on language structure once and my professor acted as if
I had blasphemed. I don't think he even read it. The subject was
enough to reject it.
Grant