re: #230 Bagua

Obdicut was referring to AGW not evolution.

Although I do not subscribe to his views, Steven J. Gould, the eminent biologist, believed strongly in non-Darwinian pathways to evolution. I’m much more of a subscriber to Dennett and Dawkin’s view, but Dennett does a good job of exploring the ‘non-Darwinian’ attempts at explanation by Lewontin and Gould.

Moreover, the Neutral Theory of evolution holds that random genetic drift is the main force in changing allele histories; while I think he’s overstated his case and overlooked Darwinian aspects of genetic drift itself, there definitely is large amounts of change from genetic drift, a non-Darwinian process.