“Yeah, well, don’t forget that phrenology, along with alchemy, was the accpeted science of the day.”
Back when scientific rigor was in disfavor and populism dictated acceptance. As scientific rigor took sway those ideas fell out of favor. They never were popular because of anything we’d know as science today.
Creationism disallows a neutral rigor. It inherently relies on a bias in its arguments.
Likewise evolution.
There are many philosophical assumptions made that are necessary for the ToE to work, materialistic naturalism not the least.
What evolutionists claim the fossil record demonstrates cannot be reproduced in a lab, cannot be tested for and has not been observed.
Variation within species and natural selection, yes. Not even creationists deny that that happens.
But the major changes that evolutionists claim happened to result in the variety of life we see on the earth today, is still in the realm of speculation.