>Agreed. Eldredge candidly admits that the fossil record actually
>shows "truly instantaneous, overnight evolutionary leaps", but the
>the Neo- Darwinist can always maintain his gradualism by claiming
>that the gap occurs when the evolution did.
Eldredge admits no such thing according to your own quotation. Notice the
word 'not' at the end of the first line.
>
>"The convenient thing about gaps in the record is that we need not
>invoke truly instantaneous, overnight evolutionary leaps to explain
>the transitions we seem to see in our fossils. With perhaps as much
>as a million years missing, and certainly for such modest change as
>the column counts in these trilobite eyes, we can easily maintain
>that evolution is, after all, a gradual, intergradational affair.
>We might regret not being able to "see" that transition-the gap in
>preservation unfortunately seeming to occur when the evolution did."
>(Eldredge N., "Time Frames", 1985, p72)
glenn
Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man
and
Foundation, Fall and Flood
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm