SOURCE: Dunn, Stephen G., and Anne Lonergan. Review of The Flamingo's Smile, by Stephen Jay Gould. America 154, no. 20 (24 May 1986): 437-39.

In the following review, Dunn and Lonergan praise The Flamingo's Smile, but fault the work for lacking discussion concerning science's relationship with technology and its “responsibility for the global nightmare.”

Do you ho-hum every time the boring topic of creation science and its fight with evolution comes up? We did—until we perused the above books, by a theologian, a lawyer, a biologist and a chemist, respectively—and found the deleterious consequences of the conflict cast pretty wide ripples. Religious thinkers and scientists need to do more than yawn; it all affects much more than state statutes.

Langdon Gilkey, professor of theology at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, was asked to be a witness for the prosecution in the 1981 creationist trial at Little Rock, which...