Comments on: Somebody’s got to stand up to the experts on evolution!?!!? https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/ Thu, 21 May 2009 19:03:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Joel https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535915 Thu, 21 May 2009 19:03:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535915 Oh just listen to his impassioned plea! Isn’t that how you science types solve these things?

]]> By: Tully https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535914 Wed, 20 May 2009 23:32:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535914 I will both agree with and go beyond what Jared said.

Anytime I hear someone invoke stasis and Stephen Jay Gould without, within three sentences, use the term “punctuated equilibrium,” is beyond a reasonable doubt, a cherry picking liar.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535913 Wed, 20 May 2009 22:18:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535913 Huh. My wife’s family has two Springer Spandrels.

They’re OK, but they only seem to be adaptive.

]]> By: Pierce R. Butler https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535912 Wed, 20 May 2009 22:13:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535912 My girlfriend has an English Springer Spandrel who is a lot of fun.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535911 Wed, 20 May 2009 21:01:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535911 Joe: I would have guessed that you would know that word. Karen, being British and all, simply knows more words.

Spandrels. .. I hates them.

]]> By: NewEnglandBob https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535910 Wed, 20 May 2009 19:19:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535910 Gould did more damage to science that the good that he did. His work quite often was obfuscatory and his paper on punctuated equilibrium was flawed, as was the spandrels paper.

]]> By: Joe Marcus https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535909 Wed, 20 May 2009 16:13:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535909 Karen, thanks for (re)teaching me a wonderful old word from humoral theory. Splenetic. And here I was just thinking the guy’s a blithering idiot.

]]> By: Karen James https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535908 Wed, 20 May 2009 15:57:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535908 The man is so splenetic he can’t complete a sentence.

]]> By: Jared https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535907 Wed, 20 May 2009 15:49:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535907 Gould was saying that in the context of punctuated equilibrium, not permanent stasis. He was describing specific traits being in equilibrium, I hate quote mining morons.

Also, Gould didn’t really put forward a decent scientific argument for punctuated equilibrium, but he was a good salesman to the public.

]]> By: The Science Pundit https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535906 Wed, 20 May 2009 14:56:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/20/somebodys-got-to-stand-up-to-t/#comment-535906 I get queasy every time a creationist invokes Stephen J. Gould. 🙁

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