Do you know who said the following?
“:Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists — whether through design or stupidity, I do not know — as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. The punctuations occur at the level of species; directional trends (on the staircase model) are rife at the higher level of transitions within major groups:”
Some evo dweeb who was gettin’ the academic crap kicked out of him* because he wandered away from the evolution plantation?
* getting grants yanked
Dev,
i don’t have a DEVeloped strategy on this matter. Sometimes I like to poke holes in the 7-day arguments. Sometimes I like to show how absurd the undergraduates have gotten in their evolution philosophy.
Gould believed the emergence of man was random and accidental. It would be expected that a non-Theist would develop that philosophy. But he was more than a little haughty about it.
And Homo erectus was not a man. The semiotics/linguistics is improper.