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To: Natural Law
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.


1) Neo-Darwinism is indeed neo-evolutionary theory.
2) Of course, it does. A study of the history of science shows a field littered with discarded theories and teachings (aka doctrines) based on them.
3) Punctuated equilibrium (aka PunkEek) is one of the more neo of the neo-Darwinian theories of evolution. Maybe if you're twenty, it would seem to have been around a long time; otherwise, it's pretty new, arriving on the scene in 1972 only 10 years before the first commercially produced CD player (1982). PE came first. It was adopted and adapted since then by other fields.
4) Ha ha ha ha ha. Typical.
140 posted on 12/03/2009 11:06:40 PM PST by aruanan
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To: aruanan
1) Neo-anything is "pseudo-taxonomy", it is undefinable since theories change on a constant basis.

2) "Doctrines" are external mechanisms applied to the body of science, they are not science.

3) Punctuated Equilibrium would seem to have been around a long time if you are 70. Within the context of evolutionary processes Punctuated Equilibrium was indeed discussed by Dr. Niles Eldredge in 1971 and Dr. Stephen Gould in 1972. However, even in this field there are a number of historical antecedents. Eldredge and Gould relied heavily on the works of Dr. Thomas Dobzhansky (Genetics and the Origin of Species 1937), Dr. Ernest Mayr (Systematics and the Origin of Species 1942), Dr. George G. Simpson (Tempo and Mode in Evolution 1944).

4) I'm more convince now than before that I was right in my earlier posting.

147 posted on 12/04/2009 8:17:05 AM PST by Natural Law
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