Stephen Jay Gould’s scientific contributions

... It follows from this, for Gould, that we thus require two separate and distinct kinds of enquiry to deal with the disparate subject-matters: namely, empirical data-cosmology and morality-metaphysics (Gould 1997(Gould , 2002. Gould singlehandedly helped to modify Darwinian extremism by proposing what he called 'punctuated equilibria', suggesting that evolution is to be accounted for in gradualist terms (Gould, 1994). Dawkins however rejects what he regards as an apologetic bowing to the appropriation of evolutionism into creationism of doctrinal religion (Gould 1997: 397) There are other middle-way positions as well, suggested by the more reformed, 'evolved' Abrahamic voices (Kitcher, 2007), and most notably in respect of Buddhist interventions in the Western debates (e.g., H.H. Dalai Lama, Robert Thurman, Trinh Xuan Thuan) (see Ricard and Thuan 2001), as also on the question of the 'philosopher's science' (Mohanty, 2007). ...

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Is There an Unholy Collusion Between Science and Religion in India? Interrogating Meera Nanda, of the Five Horse Angels

... When discussing taxonomy, Stephen J. Gould emphasized that "classifications both reflect and direct our thinking" (66). Going on to say that "the way we order represents the way we think" (66). ...

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Deciphering transcript architectural complexity in bacteria and archaea