" i.e., creationists know gould is not of their number and therefore his admission was all the more powerful."

Funk and Wagnell. Have you actually read any of Gould's books Pete? I mean all the way through?

By the way, do you believe in plate tectonics?

"yet if anybody tries telling me there is a football team better than Sheffield Wednesday, it'll take more than mere facts to persuade me."

If you believe there are no football teams better than Sheffield Wednesday you're as delusional as a flipping creationist. Up the Villa!