http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/bridgeless-gaps/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Wed, 22 May 2013 15:58:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/bridgeless-gaps/#comment-148459 Mark Blumberg Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:05:18 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2439#comment-148459 I believe you are correct about "hopeful monsters' having become a caricature. It seems that discussions about Goldschmidt too quickly devolve into ruminations on pigs with wings and other such silliness. But we must not grant anti-evolutionists the power to shape the discussions of those of us who take development and evolution seriously. I believe you are correct about “hopeful monsters’ having become a caricature. It seems that discussions about Goldschmidt too quickly devolve into ruminations on pigs with wings and other such silliness. But we must not grant anti-evolutionists the power to shape the discussions of those of us who take development and evolution seriously.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/bridgeless-gaps/#comment-148447 JPS Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:02:34 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2439#comment-148447 Thank you for a fascinating post. I suspect that part of the problem is that "hopeful monsters" has become a caricature that is now also in popular currency among creationists (along with the usual Gould quotes), used to symbolize "lack of an incremental solution," i.e "evidence for sudden creation," so that paying respect to Goldschmidt=ceding rhetorical ground. Thank you for a fascinating post. I suspect that part of the problem is that “hopeful monsters” has become a caricature that is now also in popular currency among creationists (along with the usual Gould quotes), used to symbolize “lack of an incremental solution,” i.e “evidence for sudden creation,” so that paying respect to Goldschmidt=ceding rhetorical ground.

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