Posted on 01/14/2009 9:33:54 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
Evolutionary leaps: Darwin had claimed that natural selection could never make a great leap, but must always proceed by slow but sure steps. Maybe if the leaps are stretched out over millions of years they are not really leaps. Science Daily last month claimed that “Life On Earth Got Bigger In 2-million-fold Leaps"...
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Biology has made some progress since Darwin’s day.
Ever hear the theory of “Punctuated Equlibrium”?
(Rip! Snort! Guffaw! Chuckle!)
Yeah. Wasn’t that how one pair of each kind diversified into every species on earth after the Great Flood?
No fair bring facts into this discussion.
Well that proposes to explain the lack of evidence. How does it explain the "hopeful monsters?"
Not necessarily. There is a thread here where a poster opines that Noah took baby dinosaurs, or even dinosaur eggs on board the ark. So maybe he did that the same with the millions of other species on earth. ;)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2163839/posts?page=49#49
“Holy Cow! Your dog just had a litter of chickens!”
Thanks for the ping!
“So maybe he did that the same with the millions of other species on earth.”
Maybe he did. No that’s impossible, because we know the flood was only just a local flood. Modern science has proven that old book to be nothing but fairy tales. So let’s eat, drink, and be merry, oh wait...... O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA!
Obama? What? What kind of non-sequitur is that? Comic relief? It has what exactly to do with anything?
Don’t be saying nothing bad ‘bout my favorite movie!
O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA!.....hold on....O-BA-MA!
I’m eating and drinking and being merry in a slush of humanism and man worship that is manifest in either the chanting of Obama or the blind acceptance of the Humanist religion’s doctrine of macro evolution: The liberating realization that the Bible doesn’t mean what it clearly says.
“Eldredge and Gould proposed that the degree of gradualism championed by Charles Darwin was virtually nonexistent in the fossil record, and that stasis dominates the history of most fossil species.”
So far so good, but now to explain rapid change when it did occur.
All righty, then. Have fun, but try not to drink too much, ‘kay? Those hangovers can be hideous.
Gould did seem to have the better explanations, but I don’t think Punctuated Equilibrium has become the dominant theory today.
No, that's super evolution.
Creationists deny that evolution happens on that scale, then when it suits them they propose that evolution occurred hundreds of times faster than scientists ever proposed.
And to make it worse, two of them (Woodmorappe and Lubenow) have even proposed that Homo erectus, ergaster, and neanderthalensis evolved from modern man after the Babel incident. This would have evolution occurring hundreds of times faster than scientists ever proposed and in reverse!
Talk about making it up as you go.
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