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Message 3 of 4 (370771)
12-18-2006 9:43 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by platypus
12-18-2006 8:26 PM


your link should be to Message 101 not Message 91 yes?
Steven J. Gould- Evolutionary Biologist (Notice he is still an evolutionist, and none of his quotes intend to throw out evolution as a theory)
The quote "mined" by the creatortionista website was:
Message 101
"Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. 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 that we almost never see the very process we profess to study."
I will bet this comes from his work on punctuated equilibrium -- where he is arguing that the fossil record does not show gradualist evolution, but periods of stasis interspersed with short periods of more rapid evolution -- before even going to the original source given:
*Steven Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb (1982), pp. 181-182
Thus it is not doubt about evolution but about a steady rate of evolution.
The others will be similar.

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