Re: [asa] Millions of years population growth

The article is P.C. Williamson, "Paleontological Documentation of Speciation in Cenozoic Molluscs from Turkana Basin," Nature 293 (October 8, 1981):437. It's also reprinted in John Maynard Smith (ed.), Evolution Now: A Cantury after Darwin (W.H. Freeman & Co., 1982).

Shalom
George
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  From: Dick Fischer
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  Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:00 AM
  Subject: RE: [asa] Millions of years population growth

  Hi Jon, you wrote:

  And, "Since the evidence does not support their theories, evolutionists are constantly coming up with new ways to try to support what they believe. One of their ideas is called punctuated equilibrium....There is no evidence for this, nor any known mechanism to cause these rapid changes. Rather it is merely wishful thinking. We need to teach our children the difference between science and wishful thinking."

  I took a course in human evolution at George Washington University and we had a guest speaker named Williamson who published solid evidence for punctuated equilibrium in Nature in the early 1980's. Those of you who have access to past issues of Nature might want to look up his article. I'm going from memory now so please correct me anybody who can find his article (Campbell that's you). He did a study on mollusks in Lake Turkana and found a few million years of stasis before and after about 5,000 to 50,000 years worth of very rapid morphological change across phyla. I approached him after his talk and asked him if he could offer a causal factor and he said, "Sure, draught." I'm not sure he offered a rationale in his article, but that's what he told me.

  Dick Fischer

  Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association

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