wouldn’t have looked so dramatic at the time. We wouldn’t have seen the sudden appearance of flying creatures from reptiles,
This is not what world renowned evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould believed? Gould was actually one of the more open-minded evolutionists. I liked the theory but struggled with the fact that there was no evidence for it. So he came up with the idea of "Punctuated Equilibrium". Basically, he believed that new kinds of animals happened quickly, not slowly over time. So one day a dinosaur lays an egg and poof - a bird pops out. This idea is actually more logical due to the lack of evidence. The problem is that it was harder to sell to the public because it made it too easy to disprove (again - no evidence). Check it out here:
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674024441
