Title: Disappointing
Product review: I really love Gould's work, but this is probably his worst effort. He is trying much too hard, and to no good purpose. He attempts to show that religion and science can live comfortably side-by-side in different magisteria, and cites Darwin as his example in the latter's ability to keep the two separate. Only problem is that Darwin didn't, and Gould makes not a single quotation from "The Descent of Man", where Darwin argues that morals and conscience are generated through the evolution of sociability among higher mammals in natural selection (rather than from God or the Divine, etc.) He also does not seem to see that science is essentially a "religion of error", where it is taken on faith that humans progress by learning from their mistakes. (Hence later "revelations" are always better than earlier ones.)The argument is fitful at best.
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