Forty years. My God. Where, oh where does the time go? Of course, Dr. Goodall is spending a whole lot more time on the lecture circuit than in Tanzania these days. I really need to make an effort to go see her speak. I actually know a few people who have met her and they describe her as someone who is personally warm, engaging, and driven.
Unfortunately, I have to point out that Dr. Goodall and I do disagree on a few points. For example, she got her start from Louis Leaky and has given nothing but the highest praise for his work. I don't know a lot about the Leaky family, but I do know their anthropology/paleontology has done more to help the cause of Darwinism than many. She, herself, has referenced or alluded to evolution on many occasions. That's okay. You can't be a doctor in her line of work and believe anything else.
Additionally, Dr. Goodall has openly praised "An Inconvenient Truth" and Al Gore several times. I admit that I haven't seen it, but I don't feel the need to see it to know Al Gore is a fraud and the "science" he espouses is an end to a means. Her support of him reveals how close to the fringe she really is.
It's situations like these, however, in which I must force myself to remember that faulty logic in one area does not necessarily take away from the very positive things she has to say.
Haraka haraka haina baraka, Dr. Goodall. Asante.
