Stephen Jay Gould is professor of Geology at Harvard University, where his field of interest centers on the special evolutionary problems related to species of Bahamian snails – fortunately, that’s not what his essay, Nonmoral Nature, is about. Gould has become well known for his essays on science; essays not only written with the clarity needed to explain complex concepts to a general audience, but also informed by a superb scientific understanding. His books have …showed first 75 words of 276 total…

…showed last 75 words of 276 total…has presented theologians with very exacting problems; if God is good and if creation reveals his goodness, how does one account for the suffering of nature’s victims? As a person with different beliefs and faith I could dismiss this controversy in the blink of an eye; however, for the sake of understanding other’s positions and beliefs as well as taking admiration to Gould’s rhetoric, lets investigate the works presented in Nonmoral Nature.