Re: Quality of the fossil record through time

From: Susan Brassfield (Susan-Brassfield@ou.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 10:34:46 EST

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    Stephen wrote:

    >Of course Darwinists will no doubt argue that evolution must always have
    >happened so rapidly in the past and/or in such small groups, that the fossil
    >record didn't preserve the evidence of it.

    Actually Gould and Eldridge were arguing this 20 years ago and it is now
    widely accepted. Of course, they did not propose the thing without evidence
    that it was the case. Most evolutionary biologists now believe their
    evidence is compelling.

    Susan

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