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

david ford wrote:
> 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.

        Has no one pointed out to you that evolution does not address the origin of 
life?

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