BobRyan
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What appeared to be a nice progression when relatively few data were available now appears to be much more complex and much less gradualistic. So Darwin's problem has not been alleviated in the last 120 years and we still have a record which does show change but one which can hardly be look upon as the most reasonable consequence of natural selection.
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Well, we are now about 120 years after Darwin, and knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded. ... Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time. By this I mean that some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record, such as the evolution of the horse in North America, have had to be discarded--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Obviously it was "discarded" because it was "all wrong". It was a "story easily made up" but it "never happened in nature".
So getting back to the initial point UTEOTW -- "Darwin's problem" was defined as what? What "problem" was DARWIN dealing with?
In Christ,
Bob
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What appeared to be a nice progression when relatively few data were available now appears to be much more complex and much less gradualistic. So Darwin's problem has not been alleviated in the last 120 years and we still have a record which does show change but one which can hardly be look upon as the most reasonable consequence of natural selection.
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Raup said --UTEOTW said
This is your explanation. The original horse series, the one that was constrained by being assumed to be Dawinian in nature, the one that was assumed to follow a gradual process, had to be modified
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Well, we are now about 120 years after Darwin, and knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded. ... Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time. By this I mean that some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record, such as the evolution of the horse in North America, have had to be discarded--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Obviously it was "discarded" because it was "all wrong". It was a "story easily made up" but it "never happened in nature".
So getting back to the initial point UTEOTW -- "Darwin's problem" was defined as what? What "problem" was DARWIN dealing with?
In Christ,
Bob