Schizoid Man wrote:
Have you ever read Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker? It contains
criticism on Dawkins' long-running intellectual feud with Stephen Jay Gould
over the theory of evolutionary psychology. Sometime during the 1980s when
Dawkins was visiting America, he was invited to participate in a televised
debate with a prominent creationist. He called up Gould for advice, who
simply said: "Don't do it". The logic being that "winning" the debate is not
what the creationists aspired to. For them it would be sufficient if the
debate happened at all. They needed the publicity and credibility, the
biologists did not.
For me, the analogy is obvious.
And on the mark.
Howard Ferstler
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