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To: shubi
Gould just said he resents people doing what you just did, but you went ahead and put words in his mouth anyway. What large transitional events are you talking about? Most scientists think evolution takes place rather gradually.

Here is a quote from Gould:

As a Darwinian, I wish to defend Goldschmidt's postulate that macroevolution is not simply microevolution extrapolated, and that major structural transitions can occur rapidly without a smooth series of intermediate stages.

Clearly he is suggesting a difference between himself and other Evolutionists about how and possibly the mechanism for change of large speciation events.
243 posted on 02/18/2005 4:29:08 PM PST by microgood (Washington State: Ukraine without the poison)
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To: microgood

Please give us your source so we can see the context.

In any event, tweaking the mechanisms of evolution does not refute it, it confirms it.


244 posted on 02/18/2005 4:30:40 PM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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