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Valentine Pontifex · 02-12-2002, 02:25 PM

Here is the latest version of my essay.

<a href="http://home.mmcable.com/harlequin/evol/quotes/quotes4.htm" target="_blank">http://home.mmcable.com/harlequin/evol/quotes/quotes4.htm</a>

tgamble · 02-12-2002, 03:13 PM

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Originally posted by LordValentine:
<strong>Here is the latest version of my essay.

<a href="http://home.mmcable.com/harlequin/evol/quotes/quotes4.htm" target="_blank">http://home.mmcable.com/harlequin/evol/quotes/quotes4.htm</a></strong>

You might want to add this as well.

This quote is posted in one form or another on many sites

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"The family trees which adorn our text books are based on inference, however, reasonable, not the evidence of fossils." Stephen Jay Gould, Prof of Geology and Paleontology, Harvard University "Evolution's Erratic Pace" Natural History, May, 1977, p. 13

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the actual quote reads

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"The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils....We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad hat we never see the very process we profess to study."
(Stephen J. Gould, "Evolution's Erratic Pace", Natural History, vol. 86 (May 1977), p.14)

02-12-2002, 02:25 PM	#1
Valentine Pontifex Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy Posts: 3,092	Quotations and Misquotations Here is the latest version of my essay. <a href="http://home.mmcable.com/harlequin/evol/quotes/quotes4.htm" target="_blank">http://home.mmcable.com/harlequin/evol/quotes/quotes4.htm</a>

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