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Taken as I was by Dennett’s general argument at the time (I’m less swooned by it these days), I thought his vituperative treatment of Gould was out of character — from what I can tell Dennett is a positively genial chap — but otherwise thought nothing of it, other than supposing Gould to be part of the problem and not the solution. | Taken as I was by Dennett’s general argument at the time (I’m less swooned by it these days), I thought his vituperative treatment of Gould was out of character — from what I can tell Dennett is a positively genial chap — but otherwise thought nothing of it, other than supposing Gould to be part of the problem and not the solution. | ||
There I surely would have left it, and Stephen | There I surely would have left it, and {{author|Stephen Jay Gould}}, were it not for {{author|Richard Dawkins}}’ silly entry to the “religious wars” {{br|The God Delusion}} — as good an example as one could ask for of how perfectly thoughtful, sensible and smart scientists tend to make arses of themselves when they stray from their stock material. About the only interesting thing in Dawkins’ book was how, again, poor old Steve Gould, now sadly deceased, got another shoeing, this time for his pragmatic attempt to reconcile science and religion in {{br|Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life}}. | ||
This time I had the BS radar switched on, found Dawkins’ attack to be pretty obviously misguided (Dawkins may be a great biologist but his [[epistemology]] would have had him kicked out of PHIL 101) and wound up being more, not less, persuaded by Gould’s concept of “non-overlapping magisteria”. | This time I had the BS radar switched on, found Dawkins’ attack to be pretty obviously misguided (Dawkins may be a great biologist but his [[epistemology]] would have had him kicked out of PHIL 101) and wound up being more, not less, persuaded by Gould’s concept of “non-overlapping magisteria”. | ||