To: grey_whiskers
Thanks, that sounds like it may have been a precursor to the late Stephen J. Gould's punctuated equilibrium model, although that was mostly a semantic exercise or spin-doctoring.
31 posted on
11/26/2006 8:55:28 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Thanks, that sounds like it may have been a precursor to the late Stephen J. Gould's punctuated equilibrium model, although that was mostly a semantic exercise or spin-doctoring. Chesterton was an adult convert to Catholicism and an ardent anti-evolutionist ;-)
Odd that you should call Gould's punk-eek "spin-doctoring"; I thought it was a fairly well-supported description of discontinuties in the rate of mutations and/or speciation.
...and as such, might cause problems with a simplified 'DNA clock' method of dating things. :-)
Cheers!
32 posted on
11/26/2006 11:41:26 AM PST by
grey_whiskers
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