Jim Farmelant·Jan 13A possible reconstruction of dialectical materialismThe following discussion build some of the previous discussions, on this site, on such matters as positivism versus antipositivism, the…
Ptolemaic Thomas·Jun 24, 2025Egg Baskets & Rising Tides — Chapter 1: Bridging the Goldschmidt BreakThe slow changes of a million years of evolutionary time must yield to the rapidly fluctuating requirements of ecological time.
InILLUMINATIONbyThe One Alternative View·Jun 1, 2024Richard Dawkins’ Argument has Often Been Used Against Him and His RivalAs a result, most people would focus on a single problem of evolution
Keira·Jun 13, 2023Box of Rocks #3 — Never ChangeOne of the most exhausting things about biological essentialism is that it is profoundly boring — a core of true believers regurgitate…A response icon3A response icon3
InPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophybyPaul Austin Murphy·Mar 26, 2023Stephen Jay Gould and E.O. Wilson on the Fact-Value and Science-Religion DistinctionsStephen Jay Gould’s neat, tidy and sharp separation of values from facts, as well as religion from science, can itself be seen as an…A response icon2A response icon2
InPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophybyPaul Austin Murphy·Mar 19, 2023Stephen Jay Gould on Science and Religion: The Politics of “Non-Overlapping Magisteria”This essay doesn’t (as it were) have a go at religion. Instead, it simply highlights how poor Stephen Jay Gould’s arguments are. Indeed, it…A response icon2A response icon2
Brad Roth·Jan 14, 2022The Chain of Reason vs. the Chain of ThumbsI have written previously in this blog about my admiration for evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould and his essays published in his…
Katarina R. Peixoto·Sep 27, 2020Grandeur in this view of life:It’s very hard for me to select any part of any text of Stephen J. Gould. I do love his writing, his view an his style. It is one the most…
Brad Roth·Aug 16, 2019This View of LifeWhat’s the biggest idea in science that’s not mentioned in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology? Most of the grand principles of…
