A lateral pressure for change is creating diversity over space for our time. As an analogy, I take a straw and blow bubbles into a bowl of milk. The bubbles expand and spread out until they reach the ends of the bowl. After that, there is pressure to push upwards in time. Fossil data does not have as many bubbles in its bowl so it needs another explanation for vertical that exist beyond the straw.
What about having the DNA of an egg layer? Was god to lazy to delete that part completely? Could come in handy someday, you think?
The fact that the data is not continuous, does not infer that the event is not continuous. Here's a map of an Australian Railway line. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! If you were shown timed pictures of the train taken at Ipswich at 3pm, Redbank at 4pm, and Bowen Hills at 6pm, you would come to the conclusion that the train had travelled all the way along the line, not that it appeared at these stations and disappeared between them.
