The only thing that she left out was the Recapitulation or "Hopeful Monster Theory." This is where they try to explain away the lack of intermediates in the fossil record by saying that things evolved in such short spurts that the there was not enough time for them to be captured in strata.
You know it happens everyday; a hapless lizard is crawling along minding his own business, and then puff it turns into a horse in mid stride.
Be sure to clink here and read the rest of Ann's piece. You will enjoy imagining liberal heads exploding, as they realize that what she is saying is real science.
But that's not what the fossil record shows. We don't have fossils for any intermediate creatures in the process of evolving into something better. This is why the late Stephen Jay Gould of Harvard referred to the absence of transitional fossils as the "trade secret" of paleontology. (Lots of real scientific theories have "secrets.")
If you get your news from the American news media, it will come as a surprise to learn that when Darwin first published "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, his most virulent opponents were not fundamentalist Christians, but paleontologists.
Unlike high school biology teachers lying to your children about evolution, Darwin was at least aware of what the fossil record ought to show if his theory were correct. He said there should be "interminable varieties, connecting together all the extinct and existing forms of life by the finest graduated steps."
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