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After all the controversy with a special event organized by the Intelligent Design Community at the Smithsonian, its not surprising that the organizational purification process has continued. I'm not sure why we just can't admit the miraculous nature of Gould's & Eldredge's Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium (1972), i.e., changes such as speciation can occur relatively quickly, with long periods of little change — equilibria —in between ;-)

For more on the current gossip, go to Intelligent Design & the Smithsonian. Where the NY Times updates us on the errant Smithsonian researcher who wrote an article contending

that evolution theory could not account for the great proliferation of life forms during the so-called Cambrian explosion some 530 million years ago, and that an intelligent agent was the best explanation. It set off an uproar among evolutionary biologists and was later disowned by the professional society that published it.

Note: A good piece describing the broader controversy just hit the press today: In Explaining Life's Complexity Darwinists and Doubters Clash