The Punctuated Equilibrium Theory Has Had Much More Support Than The Gradualism

“Mrs. Gleason announced that dinner was served and invited us to the dining table. It was lavishly covered with platters of food, but we couldn’t see any chairs around the table. So we helpfully carried over some dining chairs and sat down. All the other guests just stood there. Mrs. Gleason bent down and whispered to us, “This is

Stephen Gould’s essay “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of the Dinosaurs” completely agrees with Joseph Williams and Gregory Colomb’s essay “Argument, Critical Thinking, and Rationality.” Gould’s essay deals with three theories for the extinction of the dinosaurs, two of which he argues are entirely invalid because they are not in accordance with the basic rules of argument laid out by Williams and Colomb in their essay. Gould also states that the third theory of dinosaur extinction, natural disaster, follows all the rules that Williams and Colomb espouse, and thus is a sound argument. Gould, Williams, and Colomb all state that the world has a problem with irrational arguments being shoved down people’s throats, and call for a

Growing tired of slaving over devilish onions and sensing rain in the cold air, Ms. Hopewell and Mrs. Freeman ceased their labor and limped inside seeking cold beverages. Upon entering the kitchen, Ms. Hopewell recalled that the Freemans had gifted her a decent bottle of wine which she had yet to open. She proposed that Mrs. Freeman join her in the indulgence. Mrs. Freeman happily agreed, so Ms. Hopewell filled a glass halfway with the hearty burgundy liquid. The ladies began to discuss the latest gossip over their wine as ominous clouds rolled in.

The gap between husband and wife is made even more apparent through dialogue.  The men hear that Mrs. Wright was worrying about her preserves, and they laugh at her saying that she should be

“Don't listen to him,” her mother says, taking her hand and leading her inside the small house, closing the door on him. “He'll come around, Awen, you'll see. Please, sit down. We have so much to get caught up on, and I just put dinner in the oven.”

He explained that evolution is observable in laboratory experiments and certain isolated species like how they can change color do to this situation and the environment. Secondly he shows that nature show signs that we have very similar structures and built with the same bones but if we weren’t all connected then why aren’t we built and made better. Thirdly he brings up fossils which is the best evidence known. It is the closest proof we have to evolution. In the end Gould feels disappointed that a lot of people disapprove of evolution because it’s one of the best ideas developed by science. It brings up great points, where and how we

“Help yourself,” said Jake. Lela gently grabbed a burger, already prepared, from the center of the table. Jake had cooked them himself. Lela picked up the engraved metal fork. She started cutting off parts of her burger, as if it were spaghetti. Mrs. Johnson looked at her with hatred and disgust.

"I apologize for the inconvenience Mr. Baxter, there was an important situation that needed my undivided attention this morning." I stated as soon as we entered the confines of my office. "It's quite alright Ms. Gale. Unexpected things happen." Despite what he said his left eyebrow twitched as the words escaped his lips a clear give away of his displeasure.

After a long Thursday of work on the ranch the hard working men packed into the dining hall. Everyone rushed through the lineup to eat first and instantly the sound of growling stomachs and clinking forks and knifes filled the dining room that was silent moments ago. George, Slim, Lennie, Candy and Carlson in their dirty work wear an scuffed boots sat around an old wood dining room table that was aged with scratches and cuts from the many men that had worked at the ranch before the five men that sat around the table today. The men chowed down on roast beef with gravy and garlic mashed potatoes. Lennie was thrilled as he ate his mountain of potatoes. Gravy spilled down the edge of old Candy’s lips. “Jesus Candy do you have any table manners?” Carlson asked with frustration in his deep voice.

The late Stephen Jay Gould, a noted paleontologist who once described himself as an “agnostic leaning towards atheism,” wrote the classic treatise Evolution as Fact and Theory for Discover magazine back in 1981. His distinguished career and scientific achievements did earn him respect amongst his peers, but to the general public he is best known for his popular science writings and, to smaller circles, as a champion of evolution. As his treatise was written for a non-academic, science themed magazine, a basic understanding of science, and specifically evolutionary mechanics, was assumed of his audience. The treatise itself is on the often overlapping distinction between “theory” and “fact”; two words, he asserts, that creationists

In recent years, the political and religious movement that sought to integrate theories competing with the theory of evolution into the curriculum of various schools in the US. The theory that was offered was the theory of “intelligent design”, which even though not explicitly religious, makes for a theory much more compatible with religion than evolution. The danger of this move was that it was trying to dismiss a legitimate scientific theory as just one among the existing theories – an equal rival in pursuit of true explanation. However, what the advocates of this measure were actually doing is to equate scientific theory with a vastly inferior narrative about the world. It was, therefore, necessary for an author like Coyne (2009) to

The Darwinian revolution marked a paradigm shift in science from which we have realized that it is possible there is an entirely different explanation for evolution than Paley initially asserted. Rather than the Paley’s dichotomy in which organisms were suited to their environments due to either random natural occurrences or intervention by a designer, Darwin pushed that there was a single explanation for why animals seem so perfectly fitted to their environments; survival of the fittest. The Darwinian revolution mostly supports Kuhn’s claim that the choice between paradigms cannot be made by either observation or logic. Paley argued passionately for design by God. Paley asserts that the organs and characteristics of organisms, as well as the fit of organisms to their environments are perfect.

When that happens over many generations a species’ gene pool changes to only include the traits that are a best fit for ensuring survival of that species, and a new species may evolve. In the case of the Galapagos finches Darwin studied, biologists have since found that one of the differences was their beak size, which were adapted to the specific seeds available to the finches as food on the different islands. This would support this principle as only the birds able to eat the local seeds would be able to survive to reproduce, thus over many generations, new finches with a variety of different beak sizes would “evolve”. The

Immediately upon the men’s arrival from their hunting trip, Liz is filled with anxiousness and excitement. Once again Mrs. Smith and Liz fixed dinner, while the men waited in the front drinking whiskey and waiting to be served. After eating, in the stereotypical feministic world, the men went back into the living room while the women stayed behind to clean up. After everything was cleaned and everyone had their fill of the night, the Smith’s went to bed leaving Jim, Liz and Mr. Charley behind. Jim left Mr. Charley in the living room and headed to the kitchen where Liz remained.