The very fact that something like punctuated equillibrium had to be postulated shows that Darwinism did not deliver on its claims. The fossil record needed some 'splainin' to do for it to re-fit the evolutionary model.
The very fact that something like punctuated equillibrium had to be postulated shows that Darwinism did not deliver on its claims. The fossil record needed some 'splainin' to do for it to re-fit the evolutionary model.You have to understand: To a paleontologist a transition that occurred 100 million years ago, can last for 100,000 years and still look like a blink of eye to the geological record. And of course, 100,000 years can represent 100,000 generations' worth of evolving!
That is why punctuated equilibrium's challenge to orthodox gradualism is immaterial to the question of the truth of evolution.