Jerry Coyne (U. Chicago) recently reviewed Wells book "Icons of Evolution" in
Nature (2001, v. 410, p. 745-746). He starts by quoting from a Moonie
website ( http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Talks/Wells/0-Toc.htm )
which has a biographical 'sermon' by Rev. Wells. Among other things, Coyne
suggests that Icons is "blasphemous...It also turns the Great Designer into a
Great Deceiver, who, in the manner of Satan, put fossils in the rocks -- and
tails on embryos -- to mislead biologists of the future". Curiouser and
curiouser!
Also, the recent mention of the book Of Pandas and People reminded me that
ASA member Richard Aulie has a three part critique of the book on the website
of the National Association of Biology Teachers (
http://www.nabt.org/resources_panda1.html ). [Note that there are 3 parts;
follow the links from the "panda1" site]. Aulie has a very brief summary of
this paper in the latest PSCF.
Karl
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Karl V. Evans
cmekve@aol.com
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