09.24.05
What took you so long?
A new website on Stephen J. Gould seems to be taking a cue from my approach, ditching natural selection hype. About time! “It is called the Stephen Jay Gould Initiative, named for the late, great exponent of non-Darwinian Evolution. ”
The purpose of this website is to urgently organize opposition to the forces of creationism and intelligent design by providing sound scientific refutation to the argument that God is the only alternative to random evolution.
The organized opposition to creationism, the NCSE, uses the argument that natural selection, or Darwinism can explain evolution. But the Discovery Institute lists 400 scientists who don’t believe that complex life occurred by random events. They may well be able to convince any god-fearing jury in the many upcoming Scopes trials.
Stephen Jay Gould believed that natural selection was not the primary cause of evolution. His masterpiece Ontogeny and Phylogeny(1977) is the bible of non-darwinian evolutionary theory. It is required reading for those who would be interlocutor of evolution. Punctuated Equilibrium is also anti-selectionist in its implication that novel forms arose quickly. His final book is a polite renunciation of natural selection as the cause of evolutionary change.