REC
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So Barry has pulled out ALL the quotes (seriously, looks like at least 50) including several from:
| Quote | | Niles Eldredge and Ian Tattersall, The Myth of Human Evolution (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982), 45-46. |
Myths not Myth. Wrong pages. Again. FFS!
Barry seems to want to reopen the fight about quote mining:
| Quote | | Prediction: I will be accused of quote mining. Those who accuse me of quote mining will have the burden of demonstrating that I am quoting all of these writers out of context, and in context they mean something other than what I appear to be quoting them for. |
Barry, even though the quotes are both:
1) Often mis-attributed, and badly mangled
2) Reflective of a pointless faux-scholarship where perusing creationist quote lists* on the web substitutes for reading, comprehending, and synthesizing the evidences into some coherent point,
I would say these quotes do support the point that many evolutionary biologists do not support strict phyletic gradualism, contradicting your title: "Gradualism: The Darwinist Article of Faith." Your post is, therefore, self-refuting.
You could add one more quote, and we could debate whether Darwin himself believed in this "Darwinist Article of Faith":
| Quote | | Species of different genera and classes have not changed at the same rate, or in the same degree. In the oldest tertiary beds a few living shells may still be found in the midst of a multitude of extinct forms... The Silurian Lingula differs but little from the living species of this genus. Charles Darwin, 1859. On the origin of species London: John Murray. 1st edition, p. 313 |
or p. 279 of this online version:
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty....ies.pdf
*(and the typos, choices of ellipses, etc do reflect their sources).
Edited by REC on Feb. 17 2014,11:38
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