“Do you mean like Global Warming and Piltdown Man?”
And creation “science”, yes. Apparently, you agree with the need for peer review.
> Apparently, you agree with the need for peer review.
Yes, as long as it isn’t politically or philosophically motivated.
Unfortunately, that’s not what we have with “evolutionism” or “creationism”.
Evolutionism is filled with “must be”, “could be”, “would be”, “should be”, because nobody was there to observe the processes they claim to have happened. We can observe and measure the effects of gravity and electricity, but the transitions of life forms, e.g. from shrew to bat, and dinosaur to bird, are unobservable and unmeasureable, and therefore can never be anything more than scientific conjecture about the distant past based on evidence discovered in the present.
However, the difference with Creationist scientists is they will admit their bias right up front. They are looking for evidence that supports their worldview, because they believe that God created.
What the evolutionists won’t tell you directly, is that the overwhelming preponderance of them are atheists and that they are looking for evidence that refutes the existence of God.
Even worse, the collectivist-statists rely on Darwin to justify Marx. Every horror known to man was employed by communists and fascists to realize their vision, which included wholesale slaughter of countless millions who were deemed as evolutionary throwbacks because of their ideology or ancestry or both.
And who is to say they were wrong? If there is no absolute Truth-Giver, then there can be no absolute Truth. In order to identify Good and Evil, there must be an objective, external, transcendent Truth that’s true whether you like it or not, whether you believe it or not, whether you even know it or not.
So if you want to go through life believing that ...
* Everything came from nothing out of nowhere for no apparent reason,
* Life is just a curious side effect of an unknowing and uncaring Cosmos,
* When you die, you are just so much compost,
... then all you have to look forward to is a life of self gratification and a painless extinction.
If, however, you do believe in the Jesus of the Bible, know that He cited the Genesis accounts of Creation and the Flood as historical, not allegorical. Know also, that if Death were part of God’s plan from the beginning, then why would we need Christ to rescue us from it?