Gould has said that as a general principle, neo-Darwinism is dead, although it is still textbook orthodoxy. It can affect survivorship' says Brooks. It can weed out some of the complexity and so slow down the information decay that results in speciation. It may have a stabilizing effect, but it does not promote speciation. The view just stated is precisely what has been said by creationists ever since Edward Blyth in 1830.
Natural selection is a stabilizing force.
It is not a creative force, the driving mechanism of evolution, which has been responsible for the conversion of one organism into another, all the way from amoeba to man. Even more, they are saying that natural selection is not only not the mechanism for evolution, it actually retards the evolutionary process. That statement is absolutely astounding on two points. First of all, their admission that natural selection not only is not the mechanism of evolution but actually acts contrary to evolution is most revealing. Secondly, that speciation, and thus evolution, occurs by the decay of information.