Contender's Edge (@ContendersEdge)

@[email protected] @CynicalBroadcast My whole point is that there are limitations to which any genetic blue print will produce. It can only produce what it was designed to produce. Nothing more, nothing less. And even though you yourself may not believe that a cat can give birth to anything but a cat, unfortunately, there are many biologists who do believe in something like that in one way or another because they believe that all life evolved from cells or millions of years. So in essence, they do believe in a "cat to dog" scenario but without comprehension because they have not taken some time to think about what the theory of evolution is teaching them about the origins of life. They may not believe in the instantaneous transformation of "cat to dog" but they believe in it nonetheless, and while DNA may allow for minor changes, it does not allow for the major changes proposed by evolutionary theory. This is rather an assumption based upon the small variational changes we may witness, but not one that has ever been observed, repeated, or tested, but hereditary traits were already well known in the scientific community in the generations preceding Darwin and even experimented with to determine the extent of what traits could be passed down from parent to offspring. Now what examples of transitional forms does Gould point to between the larger groups? If he really believed that, then he was violating the very PE doctrine that he had championed because PE was proposed to explain the lack of transitional forms by proposing the stasis period/rapid evolution theory.