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phosfate ([personal profile] phosfate) wrote2002-05-20 03:49 pm

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Stephen Jay Gould died.

Shit.

[identity profile] elanorgamgee.livejournal.com 2002-05-20 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
((Really? *stunned*))

[identity profile] elke-tanzer.livejournal.com 2002-05-20 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I heard this morning. Gosh, this sucks.

Another country heard from

[identity profile] cybertardis.livejournal.com 2002-05-20 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess it's for real this time.

Damn.

Met the man once. A bit of an asshole, but a charming one.

--sah

[identity profile] nitasee.livejournal.com 2002-05-20 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess he would say it happens.

Now, who's going to explain rational science to me?

[identity profile] chalcedony.livejournal.com 2002-05-20 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Well he'd had the cancer for a long time, and they apparently expected him to die years ago. Now the both he and Sagan are gone, I wonder who'll take up the mantle.

[identity profile] viedma.livejournal.com 2002-05-21 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
My bet is on Niles Eldridge, author of the book The Triumph of Evolution and the Failure of Creationism. His is v. cool.

But man, we needed more evolutionists to stick it to the creationists of the world. this sucks.

[identity profile] finabair.livejournal.com 2002-05-21 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
I will never, ever understand why evolution and creation have to be mutually exclusive.

But the "battle" still makes for interesting reading, sometimes.
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[identity profile] annlarimer.livejournal.com 2002-05-21 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
They don't. That's the truly annoying bit.

[identity profile] viedma.livejournal.com 2002-05-21 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
i'm working out a deal with the creationists as i type-- if they get to teach the bible in biology class, then i get to teach evolution in church. Fair's fair!

(Anonymous) 2002-05-29 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what I said.

And I never even got to meet him. Damn.
There go my plans to apply to Harvard.

-thalia