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From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly)
Newsgroups: talk.origins,talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Creation, Evolution, and Flood
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Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 13:41:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 24 13:41:23 1986
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In article <214@BMS-AT.UUCP> stuart@BMS-AT.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman) writes:

>P.S.  So called "fossil evidence" has always puzzled me.  It's not so
>much the "missing links" but the absence of *any* continous change between
>species!

As I recall, certain lines do in fact show continuous change (certain
brachiopods, maybe?). The lack of continuous change has puzzled other
people, too. Some people today argue that evolution is in fact
punctuational: that once speciation occurs, little change usually
occurs in a species. That's why modern Homo Sapiens are mostly
indistinguishable from fossil Homo Sapiens. Evolution takes place (the
theory goes) in small populations undergoing intense selective
pressure. Not all evolutionary theorists buy the punctuationalist
arguments, however.

                       -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly