Re: Gaps

David Campbell (bivalve@mailserv0.isis.unc.edu)
Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:29:53 -0400

>Yes, I echo Glen's point. For many years I've been telling my students the
>same thing, that everytime a new "transitional" form is discovered,
>creationists can always claim that now we have two new gaps where there used
>to be one.
>
>Can anyone offer actual examples of people claiming this, however?

My notes are at home, but I believe Scott Huse in The Collapse of Evolution
was trying to claim the lack of transitional forms between the various
Cenozoic horses was evidence for special creation. How one can fit an
intermediate between them is not clear to me. For that matter, he
elsewhere claimed kinds were roughly equivalent to families, so evolution
from one species or genus of horse to another should not be a problem for
him.

David C.