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Which Steve Gould? But never mind, it doesn't matter. Dyson is a genius, his opinion on all subjects deserves serious consideration.
--Pete
Maybe then, he should have left out the phrase ' about which I don't know much'.
What Dyson does with this comment is the same as people not believing in global warming because Al Gore lies in 'an inconvenient truth'.
And it is a pity the discussion goes this way again. In his first comments Kandrathe posted some links to scientific paper which made this discussion go in the right direction, but the next thing is a nothing saying word-drool (even though by a respected physicist)