[allmendream]

They are currently the ONLY useful scientific answer.

Until a more useful model replaces them - they are the ‘working model’; and they explain and help to predict a ton of useful information.

[aruanan]

Until a more useful model replaces them - they are the ‘working model’; and they explain and help to predict a ton of useful information.

Ha ha ha ha. Look at virtually any paper in molecular biology and you'll find only the merest genuflection toward evolution. It's function is mostly that of the shibboleth or a commonplace reference point one uses to assure oneself that one is in the proper orientation with the rest of the community, even though such references points back through the past 150 years are so radically different that anyone in previous times would regard those of later eras to be fanciful and even heretical and those of the current era to claim that there is no way real scientists believed anything so ludicrous in times past and that bringing it up now is just a lame attempt to discredit the general idea which has been such a cornerstone, not just of biology, but of all science (and that's pretty funny, too).