Tämä on ilmeisesti se kuuluisa pätkä, missä trollaavan multinikin mukaan Stephen Jay Gould myöntää ettei välimuotofossiileja ole.
"Stephen Jay Gould on intermediate forms
The fossil record with its abrupt transitions offers no support for gradual change. All paleontologists know that the fossil record contains precious little in the way of intermediate forms; transitions between major groups are characteristically abrupt. Gradualists usually extract themselves from this dilemma by invoking the extreme imperfection of the fossil record.
– Stephen Jay Gould[19][20]
The full context shows that Gould only states this argument in order to reject it:
Although I reject this argument (for reasons discussed in ["The Episodic Nature of Evolutionary Change"]), let us grant the traditional escape and ask a different question.[20]
Knowing that creationists are quoting him as if he were promoting this position, Gould responded with this scathing remark:
Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists -- whether through design or stupidity, I do not know -- as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. The punctuations occur at the level of species; directional trends (on the staircase model) are rife at the higher level of transitions within major groups.[21]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_quoting_out_of_context
No, sehän oli selvää, että mytomaani denialisti valehteli tästäkin asiasta.
"Stephen Jay Gould on intermediate forms
The fossil record with its abrupt transitions offers no support for gradual change. All paleontologists know that the fossil record contains precious little in the way of intermediate forms; transitions between major groups are characteristically abrupt. Gradualists usually extract themselves from this dilemma by invoking the extreme imperfection of the fossil record.
– Stephen Jay Gould[19][20]
The full context shows that Gould only states this argument in order to reject it:
Although I reject this argument (for reasons discussed in ["The Episodic Nature of Evolutionary Change"]), let us grant the traditional escape and ask a different question.[20]
Knowing that creationists are quoting him as if he were promoting this position, Gould responded with this scathing remark:
Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists -- whether through design or stupidity, I do not know -- as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. The punctuations occur at the level of species; directional trends (on the staircase model) are rife at the higher level of transitions within major groups.[21]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_quoting_out_of_context
No, sehän oli selvää, että mytomaani denialisti valehteli tästäkin asiasta.
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Jos sanon että Rambo XLIV on erinomainen elokuva, kaunistelen asiaa.
Kreationisti lainaa näin: naapurin.kissa sanoo "Rambo XLIV on erinomainen elokuva".
Kaunistelen asiaa.
Kaikki paleontoligit tietävät ja myöntävät ettei yhdellekään nykyisin elävälle eliölle löydy fossiilistosta vähittäisen kehityksen todistavia välimuotoja.
Niitä on heidän mielestään vain löydetty aivan liian vähän. Tämä ei tarkoita sitä etteivätkö nämä tutkijat silti (ihme kyllä) edelleenkin usko evoluutioon. Kyllä he uskovat vaikka todisteita ei ole.
Sitä se uskonto teettää. Evo-uskonto.
9. Foundational Falshood of Creationism "No transitional species have ever been found"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfoje7jVJpU
10. Foundational Falshood of Creationism "The evolutionary ‘tree of life’ is nowhere implied either in the fossil record, nor in any aspect of biology"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MXTBGcyNuc
"Niitä [todisteita] on heidän mielestään vain löydetty aivan liian vähän."
Löydetty silti tarpeeksi tuottamaan johtopäätökset, jotka ovat uskottavampia kuin ne toiset, joille ei ole yhtään todisteita.
"Kyllä he uskovat vaikka todisteita ei ole.
Sitä se uskonto teettää."
Mutta ei "evo-uskonto", koska sellaista ei ole.