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Subject: Darwin Author: Damoclese [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 02/21/02 3:18pm In reply to: Wade A. Tisthammer 's message, "Also a quickie." on 02/21/02 11:37am >Maybe, but to what extent? IIRC Darwin did not expect >evolution was so rapid that it would leave such huge >gaps in the fossil record. Actually, Darwin never really expected the fossil record to support his theory in the sense of being a complete record of the biological past of the planet. Nonetheless, his original thesis has a section called something like "geological gaps in the fossil record" and he goes on to explain that things like the number of the species that existed and the conditions necessary for fossilation would be in part, determining characteristics of what info would appear in the fossil record. He also mentions that environmental changes are what makes a species change. So though Darwin doesn't say explicitly that the gaps in the fossil record could be explained by rapid evolution, when we take his other statements in his theory, and combine them, we get a more specified PE explanation that was generally evident throughout the pages of Darwin's book. Same story, more refined explanation. Damoclese [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Some quotes from Darwin. Wade A. Tisthammer 02/27/02 1:49pm More on Darwin -- Damoclese, 02/27/02 4:48pm faith in rapid evolution -- Peter Flickinger, 02/24/03 12:53pm Rapid? -- Damoclese, 02/25/03 2:07pm