[ThinkClearly]

Gould, S.J.

If you're familiar with Gould's work, perhaps you're also familiar with the fact that that quote is taken from his work on the theory of punctuated equilibrium, in which rapid changes in an organism spark fantastic changes over a short period of evolutionary history, and many organisms spend the vast majority of their species existence uniformly unchanged.

Of course, if you're quoting one of the pre-eminent evolutionists of our time as an argument against evolution, perhaps you were NOT aware of that.

[GodGunsGuts]

I am well aware of SJ Gould’s attempt to reconcile evolution with the fossil record (as is most everybody on FR). My point is that Darwinists have been forced to admit the facts in evidence, both in terms of the Cambrian Explosion and now in terms of gene loss (devolution) being a major driver of speciation/specialization.

[editor-surveyor]

"perhaps you're also familiar with the fact that that quote is taken from his work on the theory of punctuated equilibrium, in which rapid changes in an organism spark fantastic changes over a short period of evolutionary history"

I.e. a pipe dream. Gould didn't pretend that there was a shred of evidence to support punctuated equilibrium, except for the fact that, as he said, "the alternative is unthinkable." (to the evolutionite believer)

"Of course, if you're quoting one of the pre-eminent evolutionists of our time as an argument against evolution"

Gould's writing utterly demolished evolution, but he kept on grasping at straws. (he was, after all evolution's most prolific straw inventor)