It's just a theory

[Nique]

Originally Posted by SWKC

Its exactly the same thing as not believing in gravity. Our understanding of gravity is by no means complete, there are gaps, we don't know precisely its effects.

No, becuase although we do not know what exactly gravity IS, we can sucessfully identitfy the force and test its effects.

'Gaps in understanding'? Yeah but not nearly as much as the lack of fossil & observed evidence for evolution. Not even 'lucy' the famed 'missing link' is close enough to modern humans to accept as an ancestor - at the least, its highly debateable.

Don't think I exclude the entire theory, however - Survival of the fittest, slight modifications over time in descendants, those kind of things obviously happen. It's the changing of types into entirely new species (the threshold is supposedly when the offspring cannot reproduce with the specis it was derived from, if I'm not mistaken) that is debateable.

Evolution is a working theory, and yes it isn't perfect, but showing that it has a few minor flaws by no means disproves it.

Much like having some very minor evidence doesn't prove it. But I'd say the 'gaps' are too substancial to ignore.