Yes, and they can still keep a straight face and call it science.
Speciation events are closely tied to punctuation events. During these "speciation" events, a new species experiences a large magnitude of evolutionary change.
so they give us three central postulates:
1. Most evolution occurs in short, rapid bursts (punctuation events) followed by stasis. This produces a large morphological gap. (are'nt they so clever)
2. Most evolution occurs at speciation. (In other words, punctuation events are closely tied to speciation.)
3. Speciation has no inherent directionality. A daughter species tends to originate in a random, non-adaptive direction from the parent species.
Funny how these clever postulates made it difficult to explain adaptation. How can adaptation arise if change is concentrated in events that are random concerning adaptation?
So then they came up with species selection. According to this idea, entire species are selected, rather than individual organisms. Speciation is to species selection as mutation is to individual selection
Then if the Puncutationists are questioned they simply alter the concepts of species and selection.
And these Darwin addicts think we don't understand science?
Seriously, they should hang out with Howard Dean
Straight? um...
Maybe they already hang out with Howard Dean, or George Soros. Some vulnerable GOP pols are often mentioned derisively by evo-FReaks, Santorum in particular. Is it really so outlandish to wonder if liberal activists are about on the internet pretending to Care So Much About Science. (There will be a new documentary produced called "The Republican War on Science" made by the Supersize-Me guy who has associations with Soros.)
Do you know scientists who behave like these FRevos do? The practical scientists I know are uninterested in evolution, they're too busy doing their science. They sure wouldn't have the time to start and maintain dozens and dozens of threads every week on the same subject...which boils down to "look how dumb the conservative Christians are"--
It works like a push pol, and Soros has spent money on weirder things.