Occupation: Evolutionary Biologist Birth: March 29, 1929
Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also name….
People who have various kinds of politics for whom it is congenial for their apriority politics to say yes, things are getting much worse. They are o….
If I ask you who is the most famous scientist who ever lived, or the greatest scientist who ever lived you'll say either Einstein or Newton or someth….
I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all..
My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and are no longer appearing o….
The general public doesn't know and probably doesn't care about punctuated equilibria nor indeed should they, or the greenhouse effect on some other ….
In my mind the job of a natural scientist is to bend over backwards to say something which can be demonstrated to be true or at least which is not of….
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to a….