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• Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty…
• Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand…
• The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's…
• Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks…
• And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said…
• One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth.…
• If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary…

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