[Physicist]

But to be fair to creationists, it should be acknowledged that evolution is a theory that has been evolving. It's rather difficult to critique a theory that morphs into something else before one's eyes.

The core issue to which the creationists object is common descent. That's the real target of their cultural cleansing campaign, and it hasn't moved one inch.

Beyond that, Darwinism hasn't really changed much at all. The details have been fleshed out, and sometimes debated vigorously, but I don't think there's anything in Darwin's Origin of Species that hasn't stood the test of time. Certainly the core arguments remain unaltered.

[muawiyah]

RE: The core issue to which the creationists object is common descent.: It doesn't matter whether creationists object to it or not, evidence to the contrary is met with total derision on the part of evolutionists.

Look, the human genome project demonstrated that our line of critters managed to pick up genes from bacteria and viruses along the way ~ this is true of all the critters we've studied.

The trick is you or I could pick up genes from a virus (through some as yet unknown mechanism) that get inserted into our genome, which we could pass on to our descendants, but your genes would NOT have a common origin with mine in that case, nor would those of our descendants.

Still, presumably we'd all be the same species.

I really doubt the creationists want to believe bug genes can be picked up, but why are evolutionists so aghast that this could be the case? Why do they hang onto some sort of pristine "common origin" idea when it's been so handily refuted.