pete

Stephen Jay Gould will rise from the grave and haunt you if you continue to quotemine him and completely misrepresent his views. He was clearly talking about punctuated equilibrium vs. gradualism - both are theories of *evolution*.

Here is a full quote from SJG:

"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. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups."