Title: Manufactured Categorization
Product review: I like most of Gould's work, though it's often hard to read. I loved 'Wonderful Life'. I think his 'punctuated equilibrium' was an attempt to put a catchy label on a minor sub-theory that doesn't affect Darwinism much at all, just to get PR. I think now that the 'magesteria' in Rock of Ages is similar. He's set up these categories and derives his argument from that structure. I don't think that the religious 'strict constructionists' would go for the 'magesteria' categories. I think that he's failed to establish a basis for peace between science and those who believe in biblical inerrancy. What's worse, he's failed over a lot of pages of difficult stuff to read. Gould needs to take writing lessons from Richard Dawkins.
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