…in his beliefs. And so were most scientists right up until the 19th century, and many of them still today. Stephen Jay Gould, who was, of course, Jewish, wrote something about the doctrine of non-overlapping magisteria. He said that religion deals with…

…I would like to know the form of passion in my fellows at the conference. I know what the passion is in Stephen Jay Gould. It is love for all the forms of life. And I wonder what the passion is with the philosophers. Passion means suffering.…

…okay, we can start with the question, what was there before the Big Bang? A kind of platonic archetype, or God, or Steve Gould is thinking, am I going all the way to Hilversum just for answering God's questions? Or not? It's not a question we can...…

…can be focused and asked in a scientific way. Let's have a look at common evolutionary theory for a moment. Steve Gould, you said that even today the theory of natural selection is widely misunderstood, misquoted and misapplied. I try to misquote, misapply…

…who were of Pius XII's way of thinking would have been very uncomfortable to think about scientists in any form. But if Steve Gould is right, because I just want to know if everybody agrees, perhaps except Rupert Sheldrake, true nor fault of our own and…

…that, because it is this other process that is introduced, the self-planning into it. Before we dive into consciousness, Stephen Jay Gould, this famous statement, Charles Darwin, about a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering,…

…permitting us, and only us, I doubt whether it is true, but to have fun. What are the right questions to ask? Well, Stephen Jay Gould, Which animals can have fun, Steve? Dogs can have fun. Dogs can have fun. Cats can have fun. No, I think it's fun.…

…of what people have done for a long time, and the so-called modern civilized world has done more of it than most. Stephen Gould, they said that Mengele whistled tunes from operas as he decided who would die and who would live. It's incomprehensible, but…

…30s, and somehow or other we did survive, and ever since I've taken all this doom and gloom rather lightly. Now, Steve Gould, you said we are doing very badly in moral terms, and that merely illustrates that consciousness didn't arise for reasons of a…

…we were talking earlier about that fascinating conversation that you had with with Daniel Dennett and Oliver Sacks. And there was a Stephen Jay Gould, five or six of you sitting around a table, this is about a three and a half hour video on YouTube.…

…It was to find a kind of abstract mathematical basis for a sort of abstract immortality. I repeat the words of Stephen Jay Gould. Gould describes that nature is non-moral. That nature cannot offer us any ethical hold. Well, I haven't spent a lot of…

…to find a kind of abstract mathematical basis for a sort of abstract immortality. I repeat the words of Stephen Jay Gould. Gould describes that nature is non-moral. That nature cannot offer us any ethical hold. Well, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking…