In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into s…

Stephen Jay Gould
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In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of a question when a supposed rhetorical advantage could be extracted from each. ✨ Stephen Jay Gould (1991). Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
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