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Valentine Pontifex · 10-30-2005, 10:29 PM

This was presented to the federal court by Dean Kenyon before Edwards v. Aguillard reached the Supreme Court:

Quote:

17. Punctuated Equilibrium. Given the choice presented by the fossil data, increasing numbers of evolutionists are adopting a new version of evolutionary theory (Gould 1977, 1980; Gould and Eldredge 1977). This new view is in sharp contrast to Darwin’s belief that virtually all natural populations were slowly evolving continuously. Suddenly, for unknown reasons, small peripherally isolated populations of a given species rapidly evolved into new species, only a few of which survive, perhaps only one. The successful new species expand their numbers and remain in stasis for long periods of time during which the probability of their fossilization is quite high. But during the actual transition from one category of organism to another the evolving populations are so small and so rapidly changing that they do not leave any fossils to document the transition. In other words, in this new theory, it is postulated that the macroevolutionary process is such that it leaves no direct evidence of its occurrence. Thus we cannot hope to find the evidence we need to substantiate the theory! This odd idea is punctuated equilibria

There must be a dozen major falsehoods in that.

The whole thing can be found at the Thumb

RBH · 10-30-2005, 10:50 PM

I counted 11 errors on first reading.

RBH

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RBH Contributor Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 15,407	I counted 11 errors on first reading. RBH

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