[b_sharp]

"The upshot is that when Ann Coulter takes on journalistic conventional wisdom, I do not presume that she is wrong. She says that the fossil record is that complex life did not evolve over a long geological period but appears relatively abruptly. I do not assume that she is wrong, and I appreciate her point that if you call that punctuated equilibrium or anything else, what it is not is gradual evolution."

Do not assume she is correct. The point is that she has no understanding of Punctuated Equilibrium yet speaks about it with authority. She is willfully fostering misapprehension. Her work on evolution is nothing but propaganda and should be treated as such.

[grey_whiskers]

Her work on evolution is nothing but propaganda and should be treated as such.

It's only propaganda if she knows it is false.

I haven't read the book yet, so I make no such claim.

(As a lawyer, she might happen to feel that whoever makes the best closing argument "wins"^TM...
not realizing that "confidence comes from consilience" notwithstanding, science just doesn't work like that :-)

Cheers!