Me Are you by chance a member of the Flat Earth Society?
You No. Are you by chance trying to say evolution "science" was responsible for proving the earth to be a slightly malformed sphere? What's your point? What shall we all believe from the Fictitious Evolution Society? What do you really know for sure with all that static between your antennae?
Nope. I was attempting to point out how absurd you first statement was. Just because something has been "common" knowledge for centuries does not mean that it is correct.
Heck, if a better theory replaces evolution because of newly discovered data, I am all for it. However, evolution is the best model we have to date to fit the current data set.
BTW, I do not "believe" in evolution. I accept the data that has been uncovered to date.
Are you by chance a member of the Flat Earth Society?
Good point. One can "believe" in the existence of the tooth fairy, but one does not -- in the same sense of the word -- "believe" in the existence of his mother. Belief in the first proposition (tooth fairy) requires faith, the belief in something for which there is no evidence or logical proof. The second proposition (mother) is that kind of knowledge which follows from sensory evidence. There is also that kind of knowledge (like the Pythagorean theorem) which follows from a logical proof. In between mother and the Pythagorean theorem are those propositions we provisionally accept (or in common usage "believe"), like relativity and evolution, because they are scientific theories -- logical and falsifiable explanations of the available data (which data is knowledge obtained via sensory evidence).
I guess that makes two of us.
Ah, good. Then you accept that bones and fossils have been found, but you don't believe the assumptions made about them, because they are just that - assumptions. Right?
(crickets)