>Susan Brassfield quoted (someone):
Laurence Moran:
[?-] Biologist. T.o. regular and author of FAQs on "Evolution fact and
theory", "Evolution definition", " {Dmitri Kousnetsov}", "Modern
Synthesis", and "Genetic drift".
>>This description would be incomprehensible to Darwin since he was unaware
>>of genes and genetic drift. The modern theory of the mechanism of evolution
>>differs from Darwinism in three important respects:
>>...
>> 3.It postulates that speciation is (usually) due to the gradual
>> accumulation of small genetic changes. This is equivalent to
>> saying that macroevolution is simply a lot of microevolution.
>
>So evidently the modern theory of evolution does not differ from Darwin's
>gradualism, it actually affirms it, despite the finding that inheritance is
>particulate and doesn't blend, and despite the need for the symbiotic
>theory of cell origin to counter irreducible-complexity arguments, and
>despite the growing suspicion that the Cambrian explosion is just what
>it looks like, a blatantly non-gradual event. ID theorists can rejoice that
>the straw man of gradualism is being propped up by their opponents.
please take note of the word in parentheses--"speciation is (usually) due
to the gradual accumulation of small genetic changes." In other words,
sometimes evolution is not gradual at all, as you correctly point out.
>>For if there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing
>>of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of
>>this one.
>>--Albert Camus
>
>How many times are we supposed to look at this quote? Just wondering.
I'm beginning to get a groundswell of people who are sick of looking at it.
It's automatically inserted when I hit the "send" button and I never see it
unless I read something echoed back to me. I have a wonderful Einstein
quote that I can replace it with. Perhaps it will be a while before you get
sick of Albert.
Susan
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actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only
morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
--Albert Einstein
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