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03-09-2002, 01:04 PM
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Anyone notice that...
...randman seems to think that PE was created to explain the gaps above the level of species.
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03-09-2002, 04:09 PM
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Creationists are never ones to keep the facts from getting in the way of their dogma. |
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03-09-2002, 05:02 PM
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I am begining to think that the guy is a troll anyways.
I am wondering though, how widely accepted is the concept of PE. I have really only read about it in Gould's work (and I have now doubt that S J Gould does not fully accept evoluitonary theory) and as far as I undertand it he pioneered the idea. Ther prof in a course in evolutionary biology and polulation dynamics that I took certainly did not agree with Gould. |
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03-09-2002, 09:00 PM
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It has had a great deal of influence of the thinking of even those who opposed it. (The mark of a good scientific idea.) Much of it is now orthodoxy, though Gould has been a bit guilty of exagerating PE's anti-orthodoxy aspects. |
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