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	The Extinction Of Darwinism - Christian-Faith.com
		Raup, a senior paleontologist at the University of Chicago, is a leading figure among the scientists who have made "catastrophe" a respectable concept once again in the scientific study of the earth's history.
		Raup notes that evolutionary biologists long emphasized competition as a cause of extinctions because the explanation "seemed self-evident," but when they actually tried to test the effect of competition the results were negative.
		Raup says that the study of extinctions was long neglected: perhaps the influence of Darwinism kept it off limits.
	www.christian-faith.com /html/page/the_extinction_of_darwinism (1942 words)

	The Extinction of Darwinism(The Atlantic): Johnson, Phillip
		Raup, a senior paleontologist at the University of Chicago, is a leading figure among the scientists who have made "catastrophe" a respectable concept once again in the scientific study of the earth's history.
		Raup notes that evolutionary biologists long emphasized competition as a cause of extinctions because the explanation "seemed self-evident," but when they actually tried to test the effect of competition the results were negative.
		Raup says that the study of extinctions was long neglected: perhaps the influence of Darwinism kept it off limits.
	www.arn.org /docs/johnson/raup.htm (1944 words)

	JYI.org :: Catastrophic Events in the History of Life: Toward a New Understanding of Mass Extinctions in the Fossil ...
		In 1982, David Raup and John Sepkoski, both of the University of Chicago, examined marine invertebrate biodiversity in the Phanerozoic.
		Raup and Sepkoski had boldly suggested the apparent periodicity in the marine extinction record was the result of cyclical astronomical events that vastly increased the probability of the earth being pelted by meteorites.
		Raup and Seposki defined an extinction event by the occurrence of an increase in the first stage and a decrease in the second stage.
	www.jyi.org /articletools/print.php?id=472 (2809 words)

	Abstract
		In the exordium of the speech, Raup acknowledges the existence of these two groups in his audience, but he does so in such a way as to downplay their differences.
		Since Raup refers to his being president of the society in the same sentence, he is using an enthymatic argument (an argument that allows the audience to supply those things that are not said but clearly implied) that presences the minority tribe of paleobiologists without invoking tribal disagreements overtly.
		Raup gave this speech shortly after Stephen Gould’s and Niles Eldredge’s “Punctuated Equilibria” article (Spring 1977) appeared and prior to Louis Alvarez’s “Extraterrestrial Cause” article (1980) which announced his discovery of a layer of iridium, a clue that perhaps the earth had been struck by a large meteorite, causing a mass extinction.
	www.ndsu.nodak.edu /ndsu/dasulliv/324/previous_years/rhet_analysis_raup_speech.htm (4694 words)

	Jack's Stacks: May 1994
		Raup is a noted invertebrate paleontologist from the University of Chicago.
		Raup also explains that the randomness of a coin flip is dependent upon making assumptions and intentionally ignoring any number of variables.
		Raup concludes with an answer to his "bad genes or bad luck?" question (you'll have to read the book) and some notes on extinction today.
	drydredgers.org /jack9405.htm (749 words)

	APS elects David Raup, Jerome Friedman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Members of the society are organized into five classes: mathematical and physical sciences; biological sciences; social sciences; humanities; and the arts, learned professions and public affairs.
		Raup was selected to serve in its biological sciences class, and Friedman, who currently is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will serve in its mathematical and physical sciences class.
		Raup is a would-renowned paleontologist and an authority on evolution and mass extinctions.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /020815/aps.shtml (199 words)

	Extinction (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Using this example as a springboard, David M. Raup leaps into an egaging discussion of the theories, assumptions, and difficulties associated with the science of species extinction.
		In a style that is both elegant and persuasive, Raup undercuts the popular and comfortable notions that extinction is a mark of failure.
		David M. Raup is the Sewell Avery Distinguished Service Professor and a statistical paleontologist at the University of Chicago.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/backlist/030927.htm (303 words)

	STC \| Ch.5 Pt.2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Because he published in such a wide variety of forums, David Raup's work is an excellent case study for those interested in studying the way different forums and audiences effect the way a writer presents his or her story.
		Raup displays his commitment to the group's larger project of creating certified knowledge about evolution, but he also reflects his image of the discipline and of his place within it.
		Raup opens the paper with two citations, one of G.G. Simpson in 1953 and one of L. Van Valen in 1973, both of which were early attempts of applying techniques from the fields of population dynamics and demography to "patterns of transspecific evolution" (1).
	athena.english.vt.edu /~jcollier/stc/ch5pt2.htm (8326 words)

	David M. Raup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Raup studied the fossil record and the diversity of life on Earth.
		Raup was heavily involved through his career in joint programs with biology and in promoting training of paleontologists in modern marine environments.
		Raup began his academic career at Colby College in Maine before transferring two years later to the University of Chicago where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Raup (417 words)

	Reading Notes, November 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Raup is a renown scientist with a great ability to look at nature from fresh perspectives.
		Raup is basically laying the mental groundwork for you to break away from the traditional view that life uniformly progresses via natural selection toward more "complex" or "advanced" organisms.
		Here Raup takes another view of nature - the abundance of skewed distributions (notice the number of items that are skewed) means that extinction can occur with random changes in populations (Gambler's Ruin).
	www.uwm.edu /People/mtharris/Honors98/16Read.html (404 words)

	Rich's 500:Desktop Folder:Nem3BB.html
		Established species that are well distributed geographically are extremely difficult to kill off, Raup emphasizes in his studies of extinction; he came to the conclusion that some kind of extraordinary "first strike" was necessary before most of the proposed extinction mechanisms could have a credible chance to work.
		Raup and Sepkoski suspected that this mass of data contained some simple patterns that could shed light on the mechanism of mass extinctions, but they had no particular mechanism in mind at that time.
		According to David Raup, "The results are mixed: about half support the 26-million-year periodicity (with minor revisions of the period in some cases), and about half find no convincing evidence for cycles of any duration." Raup himself still believes the periodicity is real, but most paleontologists do not.
	muller.lbl.gov /pages/nem3bb.html (3611 words)

	Palaeos Metazoa: Mollusca: Shell Morphology
		Shell morphology, according to the mathematical model of David Raup.
		Of later studies regarding the theoretical morphology of the coiled shell, the work of David Raup (1962, 1966) is the best-known.
		Raup used a computer-based graphical method to produce a range of hypothetical coiled shapes and was then able to see how many of these possible types had in fact been adopted in nature.
	www.palaeos.com /Invertebrates/Molluscs/Mollusca.Shell.html (956 words)

	Paleontology at the High Table (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As part of their reshaping of the field of paleontology, in the late70s and early 80s, Tom Schopf, at the University of Chicago; Dave Raup, Dan Fisher, and Jack Sepkoski, at the University of Rochester; and Steve Gould, at Harvard University, strongly conveyed their excitement and insights into evolution to a new generation of students.
		Raup was one of the central figures in the emergence of paleobiology as a discipline during the 1970s.
		In 1973, David Raup, Stephen Gould, Thomas Schopf, and Daniel Simberloff—the MBL Group—published the first in a series of research papers describing the results of computer simulations using a stochastic branching model of evolution—the MBL Model—named for the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where the group convened to begin their collaboration.
	www.oberlin.edu /faculty/dsepkosk/hightable.htm (4780 words)

	Amazon.ca: Extinction Bad Genes Or Bad Luck: Books: David Raup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Raup is able to draw many interesting theories and conclusions by analyzing extinction as an event and process seperate from and beyond the details of the individual organisms.
		Raup analyzes and addresses a variety of potential causes of extinction from biological (such as predation, epidemic disease, etc.) to physical (sea level rises and falls, volcanism, etc.) to fairly exotic (cosmic radiation, asteroid impact, etc.), as well of course interactions between various causes.
		What Raup has contributed to extinction debates is the need to look more closely at the correlation between significant geologic [or cosmic] events and species loss.
	www.amazon.ca /Extinction-Bad-Genes-Luck/dp/0393309274 (1632 words)

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		Raup suggests an arbitrary cutoff of 65% species kill as the definition of a mass extinction (p.
		Raup's curve is derived from the fossil record, hence only applies to species widespread enough in time and space to appear in the fossil record.
		Raup was, based on the evidence so far in this thread, correct: A casino can expect >to make a profit on a game in which the odds don't favor the house, given that >the house has a larger bank than do the players.
	www.research.ibm.com /people/s/shearer/useposts/env94.txt (18960 words)

	Geology And Professor Raup - Christian-Forum.net
		289), in which Raup stated: "A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian than it is. This comes from the oversimplification in secondary sources: low-level textbooks, semi-popular articles, and so on.
		RECORD IS CATASTROPHIC, DAVID M. RAUP, Chicago Field Museum, Univ. of Chicago, "A great deal has changed, however, and contemporary geologists and paleontologists now generally accept catastrophe as a 'way of life' although they may avoid the word catastrophe...
		DAVID M. of Chicago; Field Museum of N.H., "The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity...Thus, the procedure is far from ideal and the geologic ranges are constantly being revised (usually extended) as new occurrences are found.", FMONH Bulletin, Vol.
	www.christian-forum.net /index.php?showtopic=1093 (816 words)

	Anne Raup: ZoomInfo Business People Information
		Anne Raup's summary was automatically generated using 31 references found on the Internet.
		Anne Raup slide lecture Jan. 2 Anne Raup discussed her work as a photojournalist and as a photo editor.
		Raup originally had thoughts of attending law school, but got side-tracked making silver prints in a fl and white darkroom.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/raup_anne_8882970.aspx (174 words)

	Amazon.com: Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?: Books: David M. Raup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In "Extinction: Bad Luck or Bad Genes", David M Raup has provided a layman's overview and discussion of the theories, assumptions and difficulties associated with the new, emerging science of the study of species extinction.
		This book by David M. Raup, a biologist at the University of Chicago, of the Stephen Jay Gould genre, identifies everything about extinction that we thought was true but is not.
		Raup argues that most of the companies around today were not in existence 50 years ago, and the cause of their disappearance, merger or bankruptcy corresponds to the causes of species disappearance or phyletic transformation.
	www.amazon.com /Extinction-Bad-Genes-Luck/dp/0393309274 (2307 words)

	Extinction and the Ideas of Evolution 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		David Raup (1991) has proposed that PROCESSES other than natural selection are random nasty accidents (field of bullets) and mass extinction (the big kill where more than half of existing species are wiped out in a short time).
		This presentation will amplify the arguments set forth by Raup that extinction is a crucial process to undertstand if the fossil record is to be reevaluated.
		Raup argues that there is a statistical model that explains the distribution of extinction events across time (across geologic stages).
	nicholnl.wcp.muohio.edu /NaturalSystems/Extinction1.html (716 words)

	shrinking earth.Two opposing theories. - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
		The paper came from David Raup and John Sepkoski, two respected paleontologists, and they were making the remarkable claim that great catastrophes occur on the Earth every 26 million years, like clockwork.
		But David Raup and John Sepkoski had both liked Alvarez's asteroid theory and now were sending their own theory to Alvarez, or rather their findings, as they offered no explanation.
		Raup and Sepkoski had collected a vast amount of data on family extinctions in the oceans, far more than had previously been assembled, and their analysis showed that there were intense periods of extinctions every 26 million years.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=54378 (7085 words)

	Amazon.com: "David Raup": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As the American paleontologist, David Raup, has written: Had this idea come from anyone of lesser experience with the Permian record and paleontology in general, it...
		The hypothesis of periodicity advanced by David Raup and John Sepkoski of the University of Chicago in 1984 arrived in the heat of the impact debates,...
		According to David Raup, at Snowbird I, Turekian "made it abundantly clear that he expected to find ordinary crustal isotope ratios and that his...
	amazon.com /phrase/David-Raup (553 words)

	Subu Designs - The Future of Weaving
		Included in this.zip file is the program itself, the documentation/instructions and a necessary file for those of you with newer computers which do not come with the necessary file already installed.
		Once the files are unzipped, it is important that all three files are placed in the same folder, and that you read the installation notes in RugManual.doc before proceeding.
		David has rewritten the Shwoosh program for the Windows platform and retitled Diamond, and it is much easier to use!
	www.subudesigns.com /downloads.cfm (255 words)

	NAI: Ask an Astrobiologist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The nature of extinction is discussed in David Raup's classic short book "Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?" It can be studied in various statistical ways, for example as a random process.
		But some extinction in not random; a great many species go extinct at the same time in what is called a mass extinction, resulting from global environmental catastrophes.
		Raup commented in 1991 that much more attention has been given by evolutionary biologists to speciation -- the formation of new species.
	nai.arc.nasa.gov /astrobio/astrobio_detail.cfm?ID=746 (243 words)

	Amazon.com: Principles of Paleontology: Second Edition: Books: Steven M. Stanley,David Raup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It may be of interest too to historians and philosophers of science since the book reflects paleontology's emergence as a quantitative science shaped by recent advances in systematic biology and theoretical ecology.
		David Raup, now professor emeritus of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago, was probably the paleontologist most responsible for paleontology's emergence as a quantitative science; his research covered many aspects of theoretical paleontology from analyzing shell morphology to measuring evolutionary rates.
		Raup's and Stanley's text covers all aspects of paleontology from preservation and the fossil record to functional morphology, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and macroevolution.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/external-search?search-type=ss&tag=duchs-20&keyword=0716700220&mode=books (972 words)

	Constantine Twp. Cemetery, St. Joseph Co., MI
		David Cares Moyer, hsb of Sarah Grohs; father of Dena Junella (Moyer) Malbone and Vernon T Moyer
		Vurna Moyer, dau of David Cares Moyer and Sarah C [Grohs] Moyer.
		George "Georgie" Raup, son of David Raup and Mary E (Grohs) Raup
	www.starlight921.homestead.com /Cemetery_Constantine.html (132 words)

	Dino Land Paleontology Interviews: Dr. David Raup
		This January I had a chance to interview renowned paleontologist Dr. David Raup over e-mail.
		This was a rare opportunity to talk to one of paleontology's most well known scientists.
		Raup is best known for his theory that mass extinctions occur every 26 million years.
	www.geocities.com /stegob/davidraup.html (1849 words)

	You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide: Mass Extinctions Spare No One
		In the largest study of its kind ever performed, University of Chicago paleontologists David Jablonski and David Raup show that mass extinctions wipe out all types of life forms, without regard to special survival strategies they may have developed during times when extinction rates are relatively low.
		Smaller organisms require less food, they rebound more quickly from disaster because their populations grow more quickly, and their numbers are larger to begin with (there are more mice than elephants, for example).
		But Jablonski and Raup found that for the 350 evolutionary lineages they studied, body size had no relationship to survival rate.
	www-news.uchicago.edu /releases/95/950417.mass.extinctions.shtml (711 words)

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