Oh, hi Dr Schwartz!
I'm the guy who was emailing you about your views on intermediate forms about a month ago. If you aren't the same person as the Intelligent Design Schwartz, as I suggested in my emails, I apologise for mixing you up, and you can see on this thread where I got the idea from.
Re the Darwin quote. You write:
As for criticizing Darwinian emphases on constant and gradual change, while the quote from Darwin indicates that he recognized that there could be stasis, it is obvious from the total corpus of his writing that he believed this to be a minor case.
Well, he says in the quote that it is probable that stasis was the rule and change the exception. His writings tend to dwell on the change rather than the stasis, it's true, but surely that's because the change is the interesting bit. I'm rather inclined to P.E. myself, but when I write about evolution I tend to write about stuff changing rather than stuff staying the same. If you looked at the "total corpus of my work", stasis gets very few mentions, but that doesn't refute the fact that I think most of the history of any given lineage consists of stasis.
Oh, and welcome to the forums!
Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.