Ohio Poll: 3 to 1 Margin Supports Teaching Evolution Controversy

DISCOVERY INSITITUTE NEWS ^ | 02/13/2006

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

pinging God.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

:-)

[editor-surveyor]

Or sunset, depending on where the shot was taken?

[Coyoteman]

Or sunset, depending on where the shot was taken?

The url of the photo is http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/foci/freeman/photo_graphics/pics/sunrise.jpg.

[Elsie]

Well THAT sure led me off for a while!

[curiosity]

You must be speaking of a different Stephen Gould than the one that wrote Wonderful Life, since in that book he plainly stated that Darwin's theory was in complete 180 degree disagreement with the observable fossil evidence.

I very much doubt it. Citation please, with context.

Gould even went so far as to dub the fossil record as a "cone of decreasing diversity" rather than the "cone of increasing diversity that is required by Darwin."

Context please.

[editor-surveyor]

"Context please."

I gave you the context. Read the book for yourself.

[PreciousLiberty]

That is as strong a statement of faith as I have seen.

No, it's a qualitative probability estimate based on observation. Nice try though... ;-)

[dartuser]

So how is Gould's theory a logical fallacy?

Gould's theory is not a logical fallacy ... it is a brilliant display of 'find the nut under the shell' game, with one difference ... there's no nut under there. Gould realized that the fossil record does not contain what Darwin requires ... "innumerable transitional forms." Rather, it contains a record of rapid appearance, stasis, and extinction. Evolution occurs too rapidly to leave any visible remains.

The evo-fundies on FR often maintain that its critical for a 'real' scientific theory to make predictions.

Well Gould had finally come up with the best theory possible to explain evolution ... his theory actually predicts that you won't find any evidence to support it!