Lainauslouhinta

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.