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Originally Posted by Beau Perkins  No no no this is not true, they do not all fit. Some are just loosely placed in there. Viv have you ever seen this "Tree Of Life"? Some of the things they stuck in the same branch makes no sense at all, it is all based on loose theory.
Science is doing this now with an Agenda to totally squish creation, not to advance our knowledge.
Science is in a dangerous position and it risks being abused. |
Not true at all, Beau. You're referring to taxonomies, which even paleontologists will admit are rather arbitrary.
But taxonomies are NOT the whole and sum of Evolutionary theory. The key component of Evolutionary Theory lies in how the parts fit, specifically genetic mutation, random genetic drift, environmental pressure, natural selection and the resulting speciation.
We know life mutates and speciates. The only debate - controversy is too of a strong word - lies in the methods by which that occurs. When Gould & Eldredge proposed "punctuated equilibrium", it was simply a suggestion as to why we don't find uniform evidence of gradual speciation, NOT as an argument against the idea of speciation and NOT as a proposition that species mutate overnight. Those people who misinterpreted what they said actually think that speciation can occur in a matter of days or a few years, when not even Gould & Eldredge ever suggested that -- in deep evolutionary time, "sudden" can be 10 or 20 million years. But the opponents of evolution never get that.