53% of Americans Believe in Evolution...66% of Americans Believe in Creationism

Pier Luigi Luisi talks of the "tautology of molecular Darwinism... [which] is unable to elicit concepts other than those from which it has been originally constructed"

The Cosmic Serpent - Jeremy Narby
ISBN 0-87477-964-2

"No wonder paleontologists shied away from evolution for so long. It seems never to happen. Assiduous collecting up cliff faces yields zigzags, minor oscillations, and the very occasional slight accumulation of changeover millions of years, at a rate too slow to really account for all the prodigious change that has occurred in evolutionary history. When we do see the introduction of evolutionary novelty, it usually shows up with a bang, and often with no firm evidence that the organisms did not evolve elsewhere! Evolution cannot forever be going on someplace else. Yet that's how the fossil record has struck many a forlorn paleontologist looking to learn something about evolution." (Eldredge, Niles, Reinventing Darwin: The Great Evolutionary Debate, 1996, p.95.)

"Each species of mammal-like reptile that has been found appears suddenly in the fossil record and is not preceded by the species that is directly ancestral to it. It disappears some time later, equally abruptly, without leaving a directly descended species although we usually find that it has been replaced by some new, related species." (Kemp, Tom, "The Reptiles that Became Mammals," New Scientist, Vol. 92, 1982, p.583.)

"At the core of punctuated equilibria lies an empirical observation: once evolved, species tend to remain remarkably stable, recognizable entities for millions of years. The observation is by no means new, nearly every paleontologist who reviewed Darwin's Origin of Species pointed to his evasion of this salient feature of the fossil record. But stasis was conveniently dropped as a feature of life's history to he reckoned with in evolutionary biology." (Eldredge, Niles, Time Frames: The Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibria, 1985, p.188.)

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Evolution, that is, the idea that human beings developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life.

Creationism, that is, the idea that God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years