Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Natural Law
Not true. Punctuated Equilibrium is a rapid change within an otherwise slow process.

Punctuated equilibrium is a neo-evolutionist doctrine devised to explain why traditional evolution failed to described what was being observed in the fossil "record." It's the old invoking of the secondary hypothesis to rescue the primary hypothesis. It is the dark matter of biological evolution.
113 posted on 12/03/2009 5:36:43 PM PST by aruanan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 112 | View Replies ]


To: aruanan
"Punctuated equilibrium is a neo-evolutionist doctrine devised to explain why traditional evolution failed to described what was being observed in the fossil "record.""

1) There is no such thing as neo-evolutionism. Theories (pardon the pun) continuously evolve.

2)Science does not have "doctrines".

3P Punctuated equilibrium is not a new concept. It has a long history in the fields of behavioral science and computer modeling in which an iterative orthogonal array process can be greatly accelerated.

4) You obviously don;t know what you are talking about.

120 posted on 12/03/2009 7:26:05 PM PST by Natural Law
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 113 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson