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discoveries. Every evolutionist theoretician
tries to find support for the theory from his
own field of expertise, but then enters into
conflict with discoveries from other
branches of science. Some people try to
gloss over this confusion with superficial
comments such as "science progresses by
means of academic disputes of this kind."
However, the problem is not that the
mental gymnastics in these debates are
being carried out in order to discover a
correct scientific theory; rather, the
problem is that speculations are being
advanced dogmatically and irrationally in
order to stubbornly defend a theory that is demonstrably false.
However, the theoreticians of punctuated equilibrium have made
one important, albeit unwitting, contribution to science: They have clearly
shown that the fossil record conflicts with the concept of evolution. Phillip
Johnson, one of the world's foremost critics of the theory of evolution, has
described Stephen Jay Gould, one of the most important punctuated
equilibrium theoreticians, as "the Gorbachev of Darwinism." 181
Gorbachev thought that there were defects in the Communist state system
of the Soviet Union and tried to "reform" that system. However, the
problems which he thought were defects were in fact fundamental to the
nature of the system itself. That is why Communism melted away in his
hands.
The same fate awaits Darwinism and the other models of evolution.

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