Spinoff: Body Plan Emergence

[mitchellmckain (Scientist and Christian)]

@Chris_Falter

@Hornetnester

“Punctuated equilibrium” is NEVER observed among the octillions of animals on Earth today!
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let’s go with two thousand years, NOBODY has ever seen an animal give birth to an animal unlike itself.

I think you misunderstand the punctuated equilibrium hypothesis (PE), Mike. PE contends that changes that require millions of generations under stable conditions might take place in hundreds of thousands of generations during periods of great environmental changes.

No scientist is suggesting that you would notice any changes in the course of a lifetime or even hundreds of lifetimes.

And with this silliness dealt with we most certainly have seen examples of punctuated equilibrium.

6 Animals That Are Rapidly Evolving

When man (as well as climate and other conditions) alter nature so that species are pushed to the brink of extinction then we see examples of rapid evolution.

Oh and the only “body plan” is DNA. Your arbitrarily waffling term subject to whatever ideological “God of the gaps” adjustment you choose is rejected utterly.