[muawiyah]

Gould took on the "steady state" folks in biology and provided a better explanation for the fosil record than their own.

There used to be a problem with the "steady state" thesis in geology. Agassiz blew that away. Going further, Alfred Wegener came up with a really radical view of the way the world is structured ~ it's now the standard model.

There is no "steady state".

[RightWhale]

Alfred Wegener came up with a really radical view of the way the world is structured ~ it's now the standard model.

It's BS, too. Don't know how or what will replace it, but it will slip into history along with phlogiston and the four humors of Galen.