Page 150 - Once Upon a Time There Was Darwinism

n June 14, 2003, an article entitled "How Are
New Species Formed?" appeared in New
Scientist, noted for its avid support of
Darwinism. The author, George Turner, made this

important admission:
Not long ago, we thought we knew how species formed. We be-
lieved that the process almost always started with complete iso-
lation of populations. It often occurred after a population had
gone through a severe "genetic bottleneck", as might happen
after a pregnant female was swept off to a remote island and her
offspring mated with each other. The beauty of this so-called
"founder effect" model was that it could be tested in the lab. In
reality, it just didn't hold up. Despite evolutionary biologists'
best efforts, nobody has even got close to creating a new species

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