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The two fa mous ad vo cates of the punc tu at ed mod el of ev o lu tion; Stephen Jay Gould
and Niles Eldredge.

ment pro ceed for a year and see how mech a nism of al most ev ery ma jor step,
many of those [vi tal] 2,000 en zymes from chem i cal pre cur sors up to the
have ap peared … I will give the an - first rec og niz a ble cells, is the sub ject of
swer, and so save the time and troub le ei ther con tro ver sy or com plete be wil -
and ex pense of ac tu al ly do ing the ex - der ment. 220
per i ment. You would find noth ing at
Yet ev o lu tion ists in sist on ad vo -
all, ex cept pos si bly for a tar ry sludge
cat ing such an un sci en tif ic sce nar io
com posed of ami no ac ids and oth er
as the self-or gan i za tion of mat ter.
sim ple or gan ic chem i cals. 219
Their mo tive for this lies hid den in
The ev o lu tion ist bi ol o gist
ma te ri al ist phi los o phy, the ba sis of
Andrew Scott ad mits the same
the the o ry of ev o lu tion. Materialist
thing:
phi los o phy, ac cept ing on ly the ex is -
Take some mat ter, heat while stir ring tence of mat ter, there fore must pro -
and wait. That is the mod ern ver sion of duce an ex pla na tion for life based on
Genesis. The "fun da men tal" for ces of
mat ter alone. The the o ry of ev o lu -
grav i ty, elec tro mag net ism and the
tion was born of that need and, no
strong and weak nu cle ar for ces are pre -
mat ter how much it may vi o late sci -
sumed to have done the rest . . . But
en tif ic find ings, it is ad vo cat ed sole -
how much of this neat tale is firm ly es -
ly for the sake of that re quire ment.
tab lished, and how much re mains
Robert Shapiro, a pro fes sor of
hope ful spec u la tion? In truth, the
chem is try and DNA ex pert from
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