Re: 1980 Eldredge: "time to reexamine" theory of NS

david ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Tracy Hamilton wrote:
> david ford:
> 
> > > Eldredge, Niles.  July 1980.  "An Extravagance of Species"
> > > _Natural History_, 47-51.  Paragraphs from 48, 50, and 51:
> >
> > I agree that 1980 was a good time to re-examine the role of natural
> > selection.  What do *you* think the outcome was, since this has been
> > done?
> >
> > Please use your own words, as we have seen no evidence of any
> > understanding on your part.
> 
> Except for a few fervent believers such as Dawkins, those that have
> considered the major problems with the theory of natural selection have
> concluded that the theory cannot account for the _how_ of how the
> biological world developed in the course of the earth's 4.5 billion year
> existence, and have concluded that the theory does not find confirmation
> in the fossil record, particularly at those locations in the fossil record
> where we have particularly good and numerous specimens.  Materialists that
> have concluded that the theory of natural selection/ the neo-Darwinian
> mechanism cannot account for the biological world believe that a superior
> theory of a blindwatchmaking mechanism or cluster of blindwatchmaking
> mechanisms will eventually be discovered.

There is an interesting contrast between your comment that they "have
concluded that the theory does not find confirmation in the fossil
record, particularly at those locations in the fossil record where we
have particularly good and numerous specimens.", and your offense at
your perception that you have been called a liar about eveolution.