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A quote from Schindewolf, by Daniel, here:
|"And these are by no means just isolated occurrences; these strange new forms are usually also represented by large numbers of individuals. Nonetheless, there is no connecting link with the stock from which they derived. The continuity of the other species gives us no reason to suspect interruptions in the deposition of the layers, or subsequent destruction of layers already deposited, which, furthermore, would be revealed by other geological criteria. Nothing is missing here, and even drastic changes in living conditions are excluded, for the facies remain the same.|
Further, when we see this situation repeated in all stratigraphic sequences of the same time period all over the world... we cannot resort to attributing this phenomenon to immigration of the new type from areas not yet investigated, where perhaps a gradual, slowly progressing evolution had taken place. What we have here must be primary discontinuities, natural evolutionary leaps, and not circumstantial accidents of discovery and gaps in the fossil record"
ibid. pp 104-105 (emphasis his)
How so? (How does his belief make it so?)
"You can establish any “rule” you like if you start with the rule and then interpret the evidence accordingly." - George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984)