| Have you been taught that the theory of evolution is | | | | does not support Darwin's theory of evolution (a |
| a fact? | | | | slow evolution). |
| If you are like me, you have been told this many | | | | Needless to say, most evolutionists dismissed or |
| times. I felt like science and evolution were the same. | | | | even ridiculed this theory. |
| It was not until I was teaching for a few years that | | | | However, decades later, some evolutionists picked up |
| some of the secrets about the theory began to be | | | | the essence of this theory and changed the name to |
| leaked. | | | | a much more scientific sounding name: The |
| One of those secrets was the ‘hopeful monster | | | | Punctuated Equilibrium Theory. |
| theory. | | | | One of these evolutionists was the late Stephen J. |
| Back in the 1950\'s one evolutionist realized that the | | | | Gould. As (probably) the premier spokesman for |
| fossil record provided very little if any evidence for | | | | evolution during the end of the last century, he |
| Darwin's Theory of Evolution. | | | | admitted over and over that the evidence simply did |
| He surmised that since there was no evidence to | | | | not support slow evolution. |
| support the Theory of Evolution that the steps from | | | | This idea, however, is much more contradictory |
| one kind of creature evolved quickly, instead of | | | | because it would imply gigantic miracles almost |
| slowly. | | | | instantaneously. |
| (The fact that the fossil record did not support the | | | | But there is no room in the theory for any kind of |
| theory of evolution was one of the most shocking | | | | miracle. Today others are coming up with other |
| facts that I had ever encountered.) | | | | ‘excuses' for this lack of evidence (such as |
| He thought, for instance, a reptile laid an egg and out | | | | Panspermia… the belief that seeds of life from |
| hatched a bird. He called this theory The Hopeful | | | | aliens began evolution). |
| Monster Theory. | | | | All of these are simply different explanations for the |
| This was the beginning of the modern theory of | | | | fact that the fossil record does not support the |
| evolution… the admission that the fossil evidence | | | | theory of evolution. |