“A bizarre unintended consequence of the brouhaha among biologists was that the creationists crashed their party!12 Creationists have always used the lack of intermediate forms in the fossil record as evidence that Darwin’s theory is wrong. The idea of punctuated equilibrium seemed to substantiate their claim when Gould and Eldredge emphasized that “stasis is data.” Creationists believe that animals and plants emerge suddenly in the fossil record because they were created instantaneously by God; thus, they took refuge in the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which seemed to affirm the sudden emergence of species.”