By arguing that evolution always proceeds by major jumps (saltation) and never by gradual or step-wise changes, Davison fosters another false dichotomy. He largely neglects the work of Gould and Eldridge on Punctuated Equilibrium, who argued that evolution does often occur rapidly in geologic terms (often many thousands to a few million years, which is still far longer spans than YECism allows), but still usually takes place in many incremental steps, and thus in a sense “gradually” on small time scales. So the two concepts (gradualism and saltation) are not mutually exclusive. In short, contrary to his suggestions, neither genetics nor the fossil record supports the idea of instant evolution via “hopeful monsters.”