Cliff Lundberg:
>I don't see how the meaning is changed. SJ says "unnecessary" and the
>quoted text says "does not require".
That's Gould saying "unnecessary." He's saying that strict gradualism is
not necessary to evolutionary theory. What Stephen said was that increase
in variation was controversial and then posted a portion of a discussion of
the rate of evolution (an entirely different discussion) as support for his
assertion, and quote had been altered to make it seem to support his
argument better.
>>I think the point is obvious. ID is propaganda, just as the quotes Stephen
>>picks up here and there (I *don't* believe he's read all those books) are
>>propaganda. Truth-value is secondary as long as doubt seems to be cast on
>>evolution and Christian mythology seems to be science.
>
>If truth-value were primary to you, you wouldn't speculate about whether
>he's reading books or just magically finding the quotes he uses.
No magic involved. Lists of creationist out-of-context quotes are all over
the web. He has links to some of them from his own website. Do you really
think he's read all those books?
Susan
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