In reading and reviewing Gould's essay on the morals of nature called "Nonmoral Nature, he gives us a brief overview of the age old religious philosophical point of view God has his reasons and we're on a need to know basis and we don't need to know, the master plan to which we are a major part but are not allowed the privilege of knowing the end result. (Death is inevitable, but what happens next and where are we going?) Kind of like building a race car and never getting to see it race. The irrefutable truth is, if you can apply scientific method and prove a hypothesis on more than one account and by a different hand each time, then you have what you have and you won't have to hide behind any form of speculation. In this essay Gould goes on to talk about the Ichneumon Phylum of wasps to which there are more species than in the whole of the vertebrate phylum. In this discussion he divulges the predatory habits of the wasps including their table manners and feeding agenda. The Ichneumon wasps, flies, ants and bees paralyze their prey and inject a seed or group of egg larvae into a victim; most commonly a butterfly or moth caterpillar but there are those that like aphids and even a few that prefer spiders. Then the larvae consume their prey from the inside out eating the parts first that will allow the caterpillar to sustain life until all the parts are gone. This is referred to as endparasitism. Ectoparasitism would be just the opposite, from the outside of the body of the host. The Theologians would have you believe that this is all part of the big picture, the road map of life that leads to the end of our days in the human realm, written in stone and oblivious to us, the out come is the inevitable step into everlasting life. Gould on the other hand is separating City from state so to speak with the idea that all is what it appears to be, science is science, religion is religion and that's just the way ...