Gee, we really have to teach the controversy. After all, when I studied chemistry in high school we were taught valence theory, but the 1869 table was basically the same. Then I went to college and we learned bonding theory, but,funny thing, the table remained basically the same. I have no idea what new wonders have been added, aside for the transuranic elements, but I’ll bet it is not what it was in 1958, but I’ll be the basic table remains pretty much the same.
When I was a child I could see that people and animals had bodies. Then in high school, we dissected a frog and I saw we animals had hearts, lungs, blood vessels, skeletons, etc. Then in college I took a histology course, and learned that all these tissues were made of cells, and each cell had it’s own characteristics. I could also see these cells had nuclei, a cell membrane, and other parts. Later electron microscopy was developed and we could see mitochondria, viruses and other very tiny parts. Finally the double helix was discovered and now we can track family and racial lineages through DNA and mitochondria.
Was I wrong as a child when I “knew” people and animals had a body. Is the periodic table wrong because knowledge of the complexity of atoms and particles has grown over the years? Is the Bible wrong because we have much greater knowledge of the world and its history? No, the thing that is wrong is people who prefer to stay 2,000 years stuck in the past, or 1300 years in the past in the case of Muslims. God is only glorified by our discovery of the great complexity of the universe. God is diminished by those who are not willing to learn truth. After all, God left the “tree of knowledge” in the Garden. Having eaten of it, we are obliged to pursue knowledge as God may have intended.