[forsnax5]

I'm disgusted that the author of the article doesn't really understand punctuated equilibrium, equating it with sort of a Goldsmith "Hopeful Monster" theory.

I didn't read "sudden and unexpected changes" as "Hopeful Monster," but rather as "geologically sudden" (i.e. thousands of years).

Take a small, geographically isolated group of ancestral primates and give them an unusual but relatively benign viral infection that causes gradual changes in the geneome and, over a couple of hundred generations, this group becomes "different."

By the way, this idea means the "Intelligent Designer" is actually a bad cold... ;)

[VadeRetro]

Reading it again, I think you're right. The people who want to misunderstand things will always find ways to do so anyway.

By the way, this idea means the "Intelligent Designer" is actually a bad cold... ;)

LOL!