stephen Jay Gould quote mining.

”Leading figures in several subdisciplines of biology—cell biology, developmental biology, molecular biology, paleontology, and even evolutionary biology—now openly criticize key tenets of the modern version of Darwinian theory in the peer-reviewed technical literature”

ARE YOU SERIOUS?? there is an open debate on how life could have started.

and key religious figures critisize evolution in general.

there is no critique against evolution in peer review literature. evolution is the best scientific theory ever made. no theory has survived as many as long tests and came out clean.

Dont bullshit laypeople.

”Since 1980, when Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould declared that neo-Darwinism “is effectively dead, despite its persistence as textbook orthodoxy,”

 

okey ,who is this guy?

wikipedia:

"Gould's most significant contribution to evolutionary biology was the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which he developed with Niles Eldredge in 1972.^[2] The theory proposes that most evolution is marked by long periods of evolutionary stability, which is punctuated by rare instances of branching evolution. The theory was contrasted against phyletic gradualism, the popular idea that evolutionary change is marked by a pattern of smooth and continuous change in the fossil record."

great... this guy CONTRIBUTED  to the theory of evolution in the 70´s.

"Most of Gould's empirical research was based on the land snail genera Poecilozonites andCerion. He also contributed to evolutionary developmental biology, and has received wide praise for his book Ontogeny and Phylogeny. In evolutionary theory he opposed strict selectionism, sociobiology as applied to humans, and evolutionary psychology. He campaigned against creationism and proposed that science and religion should be considered two distinct fields (or "magisteria") whose authorities do not overlap."

second.. he opposed stephen mayerism. but he was religious. see, religious people can do science!

It is becoming clear that Stephen has done some quote minin... I cannot find his supposed quote but it propably is a critique against evolution toward complexity when his thesis is that evolution goes towards diversity. there is difference.

"Most of Gould's empirical research was based on the land snail genera Poecilozonites andCerion. He also contributed to evolutionary developmental biology, and has received wide praise for his book Ontogeny and Phylogeny. In evolutionary theory he opposed strict selectionism, sociobiology as applied to humans, and evolutionary psychology. He campaigned against creationism and proposed that science and religion should be considered two distinct fields (or "magisteria") whose authorities do not overlap."

Now I found something...

"Maynard Smith wrote that Gould "is giving non-biologists a largely false picture of the state of evolutionary theory."

"One reason for criticism was that Gould appeared to be presenting his ideas as a revolutionary way of understanding evolution, and argued for the importance of mechanisms other than natural selection, mechanisms which he believed had been ignored by many professional evolutionists. As a result, many non-specialists sometimes inferred from his early writings that Darwinian explanations had been proven to be unscientific (which Gould never tried to imply). Along with many other researchers in the field, Gould's works were sometimes deliberately taken out of context by creationists as "proof" that scientists no longer understood how organisms evolved. Gould himself corrected some of these misinterpretations and distortions of his writings in later works.^"

^{See stephen, you are LYING! Stephen, you are a creationist by this definition!}

^{And by the way, if Gould and Richard dawkins argue about details in evolution, that´s not critique AGAINST evolution, but critique other persons view on DETAILS of the evolution. Darn!}