[Michael_Michaelangelo]

Schwartz hearkens back to earlier theories that suggest that the Darwinian model of evolution as continual and gradual adaptation to the environment glosses over gaps in the fossil record by assuming the intervening fossils simply have not been found yet. Rather, Schwartz argues, they have not been found because they don't exist, since evolution is not necessarily gradual but often sudden, dramatic expressions of change that began on the cellular level because of radical environmental stressors-like extreme heat, cold, or crowding-years earlier.

Heretic!

[Michael_Michaelangelo]

“When you look at the individual steps in the development of life, Darwin’s explanation is difficult to disprove, because some selective advantage can be imagined in almost anything. Like every other scheme designed to violate the second law [of thermodynamics], it is only when you look at the net result that it becomes obvious it won’t work.”

— Granville Sewall, professor of mathematics at Texas A&M University, Appendix D of textbook, The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, 2nd ed. (John Wiley & Sons, 2005)