In free.christians I read this message from "Dr. Jason Gastrich"
<news@jcsm.org>:
>Mujin wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:04:57 +0000 (UTC), "Piorokrat"
>> <piorokrat@autograf.pl> wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> Fossils are a point which can be discussed. They are much rarer than
>>> they should be bearing in mind what evolutionists say about the age
>>> of the earth. I tend to believe that they are flood victims.
>>
>> OK, you're right. This does bear discussion. Exactly how many
>> fossils are to be expected, and by how much does the number of
>> existing fossils fall short?
>
>If punctualism is true, then we don't need many fossils at all. Right?
Wrong.
>Punctualism disagrees with Darwinism on this. IMHO, punctualism was the
>theory that evolutionists put forth after the fossils weren't found.
Do you know where you read this? I strongly suspect you have not
read the original Eldredge and Gould's original paper. Punk Eek
does *not* conflict with evolution (what is this Darwinism?
Science is not a cult of personality) at all. Nor does it depend
on the non-existence of fossils (good thing since we do have
fossils). Nor does it explain the absence of transitional
sequences. A good thing again since we have transitional
sequences. They even mention some in the original paper. I
recommend you read that paper and then we can talk. I think that
Gould did not always do a good job at explaining his position,
but he sure was good at understanding the data.
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