Stephen Jay Gould’s cool, clean and sharp splitting up of worths from realities, as well as religious beliefs from scientific research, can itself be viewed as an expression of his own political values Rhetorically, Gould’s idea of what faith is seems to have actually been an item of his own creative imagination. And, because creativity, faith totally abided by Gould’s own political level of sensitivities. Maybe, then, it was only Gould’s view that faith needs to “maintain [] itself far from science’s turf”, not that it has really done so.
(i) Introduction
(ii) Fact and Worth: Scientific Research and Religious beliefs
(iii) E.O. Wilson on Obtaining an Ought From an Is
(iv) Where Do Values Originate from?
(v) The Is-Ought Gap
In his publication Rocks of Ages: Science and Religious Beliefs in the Volume of Life , the American palaeontologist, transformative biologist and historian of science Stephen Jay Gould (1941– 2002 suggested that science and faith are what he called “webs”. Scientific research is an internet which records certain phenomena. And religion is a different internet which catches extremely different phenomena.
Moreover, these nets have
“a legitimate magisterium, or domain name of mentor authority …