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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
My point regarding the theory of evolution is that things which were once taught as fact when I was at school have since been disproven. I was taught that homo sapiens evolved from neanderthal man. Then evidence was found of neanderthal and homo sapiens co-existing. The 'earliest known ancestor' keeps getting knocked off the perch too in favour of a new discovery of an even earlier one. Evolution is far from being on solid ground. There are far too many missing links, not just the mythological 'one'.
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But what you are talking about are the fruits of scientific enquiry, built on an incomplete, rather than a flawed theory .... I don't think that anyone believes that what Darwin concluded was the alpha to omega of how life developed and adapted ... it is those who disagree with the theory (the one's who prosecuted Scopes in '28, at the infamous "monkey trial") who come to the simplistic conclusions. The beauty of scientific enquiry is that it never stops discovering the new, and refining, sometimes discarding, that which has already been found. To dismiss the scientific basis for evolution is an ideological rather than a scientific descision.