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but was an ideological dogma if not to say some sort of "religion". This is why the cham-
pions of the theory of evolution still go on defending it in spite of all the evidence to the
contrary. One thing they cannot agree on however is which of the different models pro-
posed for the realisation of evolution is the "right" one. One of the most important of
these models is the fantastic scenario known as "punctuated equilibrium".

Trial and Error: Punctuated Equilibrium
Most of the scientists who believe in evolution accept the neo-Darwinist theory of
slow, gradual evolution. In recent decades, however, a different model has been pro-
posed. Called "punctuated equilibrium", this model rejects the Darwinist idea of a cumu-
lative, step-by-step evolution and holds that evolution took place instead in big, discon-
tinuous "jumps".
The first vociferous defenders of this notion appeared at the beginning of the 1970s.
Two American paleontologists, Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould, were well aware
that the claims of the neo-Darwinist theory were absolutely refuted by the fossil record.
Fossils proved that living organisms did not originate by gradual evolution, but
appeared suddenly and fully-formed. Neo-Darwinists were living with the fond
hope–they still do–that the lost transitional forms would one day be found. Realising that
this hope was groundless, Eldredge and Gould were nevertheless unable to abandon
their evolutionary dogma, so they put forward a new model: punctuated equilibrium.
This is the claim that evolution did not take place as a result of minor variations but
rather in sudden and great changes.
This model was nothing but a model for fantasies. For instance, European paleontol-
ogist O.H. Shindewolf, who led the way for Eldredge and Gould, claimed that the first
bird came out of a reptile egg, as a "gross mutation", that is, as a result of a huge "acci-
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dent" that took place in the genetic structure. According to the same theory, some land-
dwelling animals could have turned into giant whales having undergone a sudden and
comprehensive transformation. These claims, totally contradicting all the rules of genet-
ics, biophysics, and biochemistry are as scientific as the fairy tales about frogs turning
into princes! Nevertheless, being distressed by the crisis that the neo-Darwinist assertion
was in, some evolutionist paleontologists embraced this theory, which had the distinction
of being even more bizarre than neo-Darwinism itself.
The only purpose of this model was to provide an explanation of the gaps in the fos-
sil-record that the neo-Darwinist model could not explain. However, it is hardly rational
to attempt to explain the fossil gap in the evolution of birds with a claim that "a bird
popped all of a sudden out of a reptile egg", because by the evolutionists' own admis-

THE COLLAPSE OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
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