>>Should I also mention there’s no such thing as spontaneous generation, recapitulation, or Piltdown Man?<<
The exposure of Piltdown Man is a great example of how the Scientific Method triumphs over, say, ignorant guesses.
You really should LEARN things before exposing your ignorance by repeating nonsense such as “spontaneous generation” and “recapitulation” — but we who know things appreciate the laughs they produce.
Knowledge is elusive for many — I suggest you pursue it.
Speak for yourself. Piltdown Man is a perfect example of how wishful thinking overcomes science in the public arena every time. The only reason Piltdown Man was ultimately exposed was because other more sophisticated hoaxes (Neanderthals, for one) took its place. The Scientific Method hasn’t yet overcome anthropogenic global warming, the gay gene, or—yes—spontaneous generation, because all of these hoaxes serve the wishful thinking of vested interests, the same as evolution.
Incidentally, you who “know things” evidently don’t understand your own delusion as well as you pretend: spontaneous generation is a necessary part of your evolutionary mythology. At some point, you have to believe that life formed from non-life in order for there to be any life to evolve at all. Therefore, by referring to spontaneous generation as “nonsense” you’ve discredited your own belief in evolution already and exposed your ignorance.
Knowledge without wisdom is a terrible folly: there’s no fool like an educated fool. Pursue wisdom rather than folly.