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From: dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (Dan Boskovich)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Not Surprising, Twice
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Date: Mon, 6-May-85 15:53:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  6 15:53:18 1985
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Summary: 

>One very nice reference to intermediates is contained in Ashley Montagu's
>collection of pro-evolution essays _Science and Creationism_ (Oxford Press,
>1984). Contained therein is an essay by Roger Cuffy of Penn State University
>called "Paleontologic Evidence and Organic Evolution", which contains
>citations to approximately 170 articles in the paleontological literature,
>all concerning studies of various intermediate forms. In Cuffy's words,
>
>"Consequently, after carefully considering the implications of the fossil
>record, we must conclude that that record represents the remains of gradually
>and continuously evolving, ancestor-descendent lineages, uninterrupted
>by special creative acts, and producing succesive different species which
>eventually become so divergent from the initial form that they constitute
>new major kinds of organisms."
>-- 
>Lyle McElhaney
>{hao, stcvax, brl-bmd, nbires, csu-cs} !denelcor!lmc

  If this is so, then why is it that so many evolutionists like Steven
  Jay Gould, etc. have abandoned gradualism for lack of evidence in
  in the fossils?


					Dan


  @There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale
  returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact!

					  Mark Twain