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Not true; the basic structure of evolutionary theory that was proposed by Darwin has not changed. Descent with modification, with natural selection as the main causal agent, has been wonderfully affirmed by the evidence of the last 150 years. Common descent is no longer an issue.

< I am laughing still from that comment.

Hopeful Monster is totally against gradualism, and for an evo to not know that, you must be a newbie...

You offered a lot of good points on this. I'm with you all the way.

I also think that sometimes what looks obvious to some folks is simply not even taken in account to others.

For example, if you believe that it takes a LOT of mud and water for bones to fossilize, and ALSO take into account that most animals simply decay or get eaten, then to SOME of us, the Biblical flood accounts for almost all the fossils we have in the fossil record. To some of us, it is simply obvious that the reason there are no gaps in the fossil record is for 2 reasons...1) evolution doesn't happen and 2) the fossil record is like a snapshot of what all animals were drowned in the flood.

And to others, it isn't obvious at all because they want a different answer in the first place.