[centurion316]

Perhaps you are, but only your fellow Luddites would care, assuming that you are one to begin with.

In this case, we have actual biological evidence, roundworm eggs that have been preserved and that can be identified by their morphology under the microscope.

Chronological sequencing has progressed so much since my days in academia some 40 plus years ago that one would think that we did it with chicken bones and incantations, which we did not: we preferred bourbon.

[9thLife]

there's always at least one leap of faith along the way, isn't there? sometimes thousands?

No, no, I'm not knocking leaps of faith. Some great science has been produced by great faith.