The general argument made by Stephen Jay Gould in his work, “The Creation Myths of Cooperstown”, is that people nearly fall for anything. More specifically, Gould argues that people just simply believe in anything that sounds reasonable to them instead of finding out the actual truth. He writes, “suckers are born every minute. The end result is the same: you can, Honest Abe notwithstanding, fool most of the people all of the time.” In this passage, Gould is suggesting that people would rather believe in “creation myths” instead of the reality. One person can easily mislead another person. In conclusion, Gould’s belief is that not everything is the way that it looks. It is the real story behind something that really matters.
In my view, Gould