Life as Evolving Software... (Chaitin) (Humans)

by David Turell , Saturday, December 24, 2011, 20:53 (4517 days ago) @ xeno6696

Whales... I could buy your story if modern whales didn't have vestigial legs.

We'll have to agree to disagree. Of course a fossiol is a snapshot, but most commentators feel we have enough snapshots to agree that we can see patterns of evolutionary development that there is stasis, and fits and starts with large jumps after the stasis.

I don't follow that last statement. Of course whales are mammals and the legs prove that.My point is each fossil we have in development of whales is a large jump from the last form and there are no intermediates, after prodigious searching, and we may never find any because there never were any. Darwin predicted there would be. He has been shown to be wrong in his hope. Your skepticism in this area takes on the aura of a faith. Gould didn't bujy your belief.