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". . . It is worthy to note that Dr. Thompson penned the above words nearly 50 years ago. In subsequent years, recent developments and discoveries throughout the sciences have made belief in evolution more and more difficult. So much so that some scientists have now abandoned the theory while others, although continuing to exercise faith that evolution is true, concede that convincing evidence for it may never be forthcoming. . . ."

This is the most ridiculous claim imaginable because the truth is just the opposite. The evidence for evolution is now so overwhelming that evolution itself approaches facticity. There are real debates about the engine of evolutionary change in science, but there is no debate about evolution itself, because no evidence has been brought forth to challenge it. There are just repeated claims from anti-evolution mutual support groups that such evidence has been provided, but these groups and their members never answer the most basic questions put to them about that evidence and they deny proven scientific facts, such as radiometric dating, observed instances of speciation, and much more.

I'll put up the same challenge here that I have posted at least three other times on other threads. To anyone who wants to charge that the scientific evidence for evolution has been discredited in recent years, please explain how oil companies search for oil using the evidence of the fossil record to establish the geologic age of rock formations whose potential for holding oil deposits they assess based upon the taxonomy of fossil remains. No anti-evolutionist has ever answered this challenge on this board because doing so will make clear that the assertion that science has produced evidence that calls evolution into question is blatantly false. Every day geologists use the evidence of evolution to find oil and with each passing year they have become better at finding it.

So come on you opponents of evolution, explain to me and the rest of the board how geologists find oil. And after you explain it, try to post that idiotic claim that the evidence for evolution has been discredited by new scientific discoveries. I would just love to see you tell it to a Petroleum Geologist.