Latest Challenges to the Teaching of Evolution

"Even though thecontinuity of speciational evolution, it will appear in the scanty fossil record as a saltation and has been described as such. This is a misinterpretation, since every step in speciational evolution is a gradual populational process.
Eldredge and Gould (1972) have called this process "evolution by punctuated equilibria". .. The claim has been made by some authors that the occurence of PE is in conflict with gradual Darwinian evolution. THis is incorrect (GOULD 1977) Even PE, which at first sight, seems to support saltationism and discontinuity, is , in fact, strictly a populational phenomenon, and therefore gradual. PE is in no way in conflict with the conclusions of the evolutionary synthesis E B MAyr (2001) What Evolution IS PErseus, Basic Books Pub, pp (193, 270).

What a stupid theory.....

Oh dear, Oklahoma
(The McGill Tribune, Editorial, March 9, 2009)

We're starting to sound like a broken record. Last Tuesday, the Tribune editorialized about the need to respect freedom of speech on campus after student groups tried to block a speech by Türkkaya Ataöv, a controversial Turkish academic. That same day, two bills were introduced to the Oklahoma state legislature, condemning the University of Oklahoma for teaching evolution and inviting alumnus Richard Dawkins to speak on campus.

Dawkins is one of the world's most prominent evolutionary biologists. He has also drawn attention in recent years for his pronounced atheism, especially after publishing the best-selling The God Delusion. In a state like Oklahoma-where roughly 80 per cent of the population are devout Christians-Dawkins is understandably unpopular.

If nothing else, Todd Thomsen-the author of both resolutions-is a master of irony. Thomsen's first resolution begins by noting that "the University of Oklahoma is a publicly funded institution which should be open to all ideas." Of course, it then proceeds to condemn the invitation given to Dawkins, because he expresses "views that are not shared and are not representative of the thinking of a majority of the citizens of Oklahoma."

This situation would almost be funny, if it wasn't so sad. Thomsen also attacks the university's department of zoology for "framing the Darwinian theory of evolution as doctrinal dogmatism rather than a hypothetical construction within the disciplines of the sciences." Unfortunately, this logic is all too common in the American "Bible Belt." Suffice to say, it's bunk. Evolution by natural selection is the organizing principle of the biological sciences, and calling it a "hypothetical construction" isn't a criticism-science is in the business of creating hypotheses.

Unfortunately, a victory for free speech in the Oklahoma legislature won't mean much. Thomsen's (non-binding) resolutions are almost certainly unconstitutional-they're mainly an effort to score political points with a certain segment of the electorate. But Dawkins should be able to speak at his alma matter, and University of Oklahoma students deserve to have a free and open campus, even if it's in a closed-minded state.

Thomsen's (non-binding) resolutions are almost certainly unconstitutional-they're mainly an effort to score political points with a certain segment of the electorate. But Dawkins should be able to speak at his alma matter, and University of Oklahoma students deserve to have a free and open campus, even if it's in a closed-minded state

YOU are really a dipshit and ineducable gunga. What you said is a LIE and is a function of your inability to understand. THERE IS NO "HALDANE DILEMMA " douche bag,....

Answering Evolutionist Attempts to Dismiss "Haldane's Dilemma"
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Fred Williams credentials:
http://www.evolutionfairytale.com/bio.htm

A fool can lead a fool to water and make him drink.

In 1983 I received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, with emphasis in digital design and a minor in mathematics. I began my career at Cencorp in Boulder, Colorado, where I designed hardware and software for an automated PC board-cutting machine. The machine implemented 6 inter-dependent processors and closed-lock loop servo control. After a year, I left for Engineering Measurements Company in Longmont Colorado, where I was the lead designer of intelligent coordination and configuration software for traffic light controllers (don’t blame me if all lights go green in both directions!).

After a year at EMCO, I moved on to McDATA Corporation in Broomfield, Colorado, where I spent the next 21 and a half years up until McDATA's last day in January 2007. After spending a couple years as a diagnostics engineer, I transferred to the channel extension group where I designed bit-slice software to "spoof" remote, high-speed devices. Upon completion of this project, I became the sole software developer for the ESCON Repeater, a multi-port product that "repeats" ESCON signals over extended distances. I then became the primary software developer of the multi-port Sysplex Timer, a machine commonly configured with an identical peer unit for redundancy, that sends precise timing signals to IBM mainframes at a required accuracy of less than 1us between the peer units. My responsibilities included software management of the phase-lock coordination of 4 oscillators at distances up to 28 Kilometers between the peer units, a proprietary protocol between the peer units requiring optimum information throughput, and timing signal management to the IBM-attached host machines. I subsequently became the lead engineer for the High Availability software of the redundant main processor boards of all our Fibre Channel Director class products. After several years as the project lead for firmware releases of our Fibre Channel Switch and Director products, I spent my last year with McDATA as a Firmware Engineering manager. In 2008 I joined Echostar Corporation and help design software for their set-top boxes.

Majored in Commercial and Fine Art with English as a Minor in college...
Lived in Hollywood ....
Location: Orange County, California....

Whoa, like, man, that's really heavy. I mean, take a look at just a bit of Williams credentials:

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In 1983 I received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, with emphasis in digital design and a minor in mathematics. I began my career at Cencorp in Boulder, Colorado, where I designed hardware and software for an automated PC board-cutting machine. The machine implemented 6 inter-dependent processors and closed-lock loop servo control. After a year, I left for Engineering Measurements Company in Longmont Colorado, where I was the lead designer of intelligent coordination and configuration software for traffic light controllers (don’t blame me if all lights go green in both directions!).

After a year at EMCO, I moved on to McDATA Corporation in Broomfield, Colorado, where I spent the next 21 and a half years up until McDATA's last day in January 2007. After spending a couple years as a diagnostics engineer, I transferred to the channel extension group where I designed bit-slice software to "spoof" remote, high-speed devices. Upon completion of this project, I became the sole software developer for the ESCON Repeater, a multi-port product that "repeats" ESCON signals over extended distances. I then became the primary software developer of the multi-port Sysplex Timer, a machine commonly configured with an identical peer unit for redundancy, that sends precise timing signals to IBM mainframes at a required accuracy of less than 1us between the peer units. My responsibilities included software management of the phase-lock coordination of 4 oscillators at distances up to 28 Kilometers between the peer units, a proprietary protocol between the peer units requiring optimum information throughput, and timing signal management to the IBM-attached host machines. I subsequently became the lead engineer for the High Availability software of the redundant main processor boards of all our Fibre Channel Director class products. After several years as the project lead for firmware releases of our Fibre Channel Switch and Director products, I spent my last year with McDATA as a Firmware Engineering manager. In 2008 I joined Echostar Corporation and help design software for their set-top boxes.

How does electrical engineering and software management qualify him as an expert on paleontology or evolutionary biology?

I built a library of over a hundred books on evolution alone.

Whatever choice, then, or possession of the natural goods---whether bodily goods, wealth, friends or other things---will most produce the contemplation of God, that choice or possession is best; this is the noblest standard, but any that through deficiency or excess hinders one from the contemplation and service of God, is bad.