Quote Originally Posted by Youngblood View Post
You do realize it is a work in progress, the study and science of the fossil record? I mean, each new find either backs up claims, or changes them.

I'd be more worried about the legitimacy of it if it refused to allow for such change.
I understand that YB but in the meantime science still present's their findings as factual, only to completely change them later on and then these new findings become fact.

It's like right now we 'know' that life began just over 4 billion years ago. Until a year or so ago we all knew it began 3.8 billion years ago.

We knew the mammoths were wiped out by a comet like the dinosaurs until this year when we find they now wern't

If you look at the history of evolutionary science all you see is that every idea and 'fact' is changed, thrown out, altered, revised etc as they go along demonstrating that nothing was obviously 'fact' before.

The dinosaurs for example died out 65 million years ago. We know this for a fact. I wonder what that number will be in another decade or so?

My bet is that figure will change either higher or lower as evolutionary theories change over the next 30 years or so.