[net.origins] Irony of the Month

dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) (07/11/85)

In "Helpful Monsters" (from _Hen's Teeth and Horses Toes_), Stephen Jay
Gould refers to W J Ouweneel.

Ouweneel is described by Lazar as "a prominent European creationist" [p118].

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Stephen Jay Gould, _Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes_, W W Norton,
New York, 1983.

Ernie Lazar, _Creationism:  a critical bibliography_ (second edition),
privately published, San Francisco, 1983.

Willem J Ouweneel, "Developmental genetics of homoeois", _Advances in
Genetics_, 18, 1976, 179-248.

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dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) (07/11/85)

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> In "Helpful Monsters" (from _Hen's Teeth and Horses Toes_), Stephen Jay
> Gould refers to W J Ouweneel.

I'm sorry, that last posting was not clear at all.  Gould often refers
to creationists, but usually with contempt.

The irony is that Gould refers to Ouweneel as a source of real information,
i.e., he relies on Ouweneel's article as a source useful to his own
thesis.
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