I missed that. What? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. It has been around a lot longer and therefore has spent MORE time under the 'microscope' of critical thinking. Around longer time = more time, around shorter time = less time, not the reverse. Longer = more, shorter = less. Or am I missing something about the English language here? Anyway, the theory as it is today is quite a bit different than as first proposed due to over a century of critique and discovery. Germ theory is quite a bit different too. Successful theories tend to change over time because nobody gets it right from the beginning.
If we had a tax break-down that showed how much of our tax dollars go to supporting evolutionary science and also how much usefullness it has produced then and only then would it receive the same scrutiny as GW.