"Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need
feeding.
Always feeding and gloating for more."
Clarence Darrow. Quoted in Stephen Jay Gould,
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes..
Clarence Darrow. Quoted in Stephen Jay Gould, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes..
"All we have of natural law is a world that has
made itself. All that we may
expect of human law is what
we can negotiate among ourselves."
Lee Smolin, The Life of the Cosmos.
"Eventually, all things merge
into one, and a river runs through
it."
Norman Maclean, A River Runs
Through It.
Islamic Studies, Islam, Arabic, and Religion
Antievolutionism and Creationism in the United States
The Ten Commandments in Court: Power and Its Abuse
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expect of human law is what we can negotiate among ourselves."
"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it."
Islamic Studies, Islam, Arabic, and Religion
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Ph.D. English, 1976. Purdue University.
M.A., English, 1972. University of Montana.
B.A., cum laude, History
and Political Science,
1969.
University
of Montana.
Additional graduate and postgraduate
study at
Merton College
, Oxford
University
University College London
The University of Edinburgh
Vanderbilt University
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Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, 1995-96.
Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, People's Republic of China, 1983-84.
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"Stephen Jay Gould's (Post)Modernism."
Interdisciplinary Literary
Studies:
A Journal of Theory and Interpretation
1.2 (2000): 215-227.
"Stephen Jay Gould and 'you'."
Public Understanding of Science
4 (Summer 1995): 299-303.
The Literature of Science:
Perspectives on Popular Scientific
Writing.
University of Georgia Press,
1993.
"Stephen Jay Gould and the
Contingent Nature of History."
CLIO 22 (Spring 1993):
239-50.
"The Paradigmatic and the
Interpretive in Thomas Kuhn."
CLIO 17 (Spring 1988):
239-48.
"Hamlet's Aesthetics and
the Aesthetics of Hamlet."
Publications of the Mississippi
Philological Association
(1987): 1-11.
"Everyman's Last Rites and
the Digression on Priesthood."
College Literature 13 (Fall
1986): 305-09.
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Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Shakespeare's
Globe Theatre
World Shakespeare
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Literary and Cultural Theory
Felluga's Introduction
to Critical Theory
Voice of the Shuttle--Literary
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