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Thanks for sending us this agonizing report. If Steven Jay Gould were alive he would be happy to pop over to University College London and give a talk to Steve Jones's students and others. Though the resistance to evolution is essentially faith-based, I note in his report that it is rationalized by the Intelligent Design argument, and in particular the argument that increases in complexity violate the Second Law of thermodynamics. This is promulgated by a mathematician, Granville Sewell, who published an early version in The Mathematical Intelligencer, which I edit. Lewontin was impatient with me for giving Sewell space, I remember. A British emeritus prof of chemistry, Bob Lloyd, haS an extended rebuttal forthcoming in The Intelligencer. He was perhaps motivated to write it up partly by experiences like those Jones describes. The short form of Lloyd's argument is this: If increases in complexity always constituted violations of the Second Law of thermodynamics, then we would have to abandon not evolution but thermodynamics! Because some increases in complexity are observed in less-than-geological time scale. I should send Steve Jones a copy of Lloyd's article. What address shall I use? Chandler