The theory of evolution, in essence, existed long before Darwin. It was known, in general, even by ancient peoples. Anyone who was a herder or farmer observed and understood breeding and the differences between natural and artificial selection. One could not be a successful farmer or herder without independently deriving these relationships from experience. Genesis also discusses the blood line or DNA of humans, from Adam, forward several thousand years.
Evolution does not deal with the formation of life, from scratch; small basic chemicals like water and CO2. These questions are connected to a different area of science called abiogenesis. Abiogenesis has never made life in the lab to prove their approach and assumptions are correct. Most scientists depend on a prestige affect. They give more weight to abiogenesis, due to lab coats and machines that go "bing", than it deserves based on verifiable data.
The Big Bang theory was originally proposed by a Catholic Priest. Talk about irony.
In 1927, the Belgian Catholic priest Georges Lemaître proposed an expanding model for the universe to explain the observed redshifts of spiral nebulae, and calculated the Hubble law. He based his theory on the work of Einstein and De Sitter, and independently derived Friedmann's equations for an expanding universe.
Catholic Priests and others educated by the Church, were many of the early pioneers who led to modern science. The Catholic Church educated it priests at the university level even before there were universities. This was an artifact of its Roman heritage.
Darwin's theory of evolution, which was just a redo of ancient breeder knowledge, was not fully accepted by the Church, because it was half baked. The original version lacked any knowledge of DNA. DNA would not be discovered for another 100 years. Science was ready to run with the incorrect version of evolution, mostly for political reasons.
Dark matter and dark energy are bandaids used to perpetuate theory that no linger fits new observations. This is inferred from the fact, that these materials have never been seen in the lab. Dark matter and dark energy are sort of a mirage. Like a mirage, we can see it from far away, but as you get closer, it disappears. It is an artifact of the current standard theory violating the Conservation of Energy. This violation has to do with the ideas of no center of the universe and relative reference. These theories, as applied to universe observation, make it hard to define a single energy balance, needed for energy conservation. Energy Conservation is one of the few laws of science, and trumps anything that is just a theory.
The underlying problem in cosmology and astrophysics is all the data we collect is based on energy signals. We use energy because of the speed and because it lingers in time. Energy is wavelength and frequency or distance and time. Einstein defined three parameters in his theory of Special Relativity; distance, time and mass. This theory is applied to space observations. However, we do not measure mass directly, but rather we infer mass from energy signals; distance and time. This disconnect between observation and inferred tangible reality, is creating a problem. The only object in the universe, besides the earth, that we have touched; mass, is the moon.
As an analogy, say we had virtual reality glasses. We can see what appears to be the world around us. However, if you try to touch anything, it is not really, there. Our sense of touch brings us in contact with mass, matter and substance. Our eyes can see what appears to be mass, even when mass is not there. Just because we infer mass from sight; virtual reality, does not mean it is part of tangible reality.
Let me give an example. Say we look through a telescope and see a star become a super nova. Based on the light we see, we calculate this happened 10 billion years go. Today, that physical star is long gone, but its energy signal is still there. The tangible matter of the star has long been dispersed in space, even though the energy signal shows it to be a compact event. These two scenarios; real time and historical, generate two different gravitational pulls. What we see, has nothing to do with its tangible reality of today. Since, we cannot directly measure mass, we can't do anything about this problem. We have to speculate, infer and extrapolate; compounding errors. Now we need a mirage bandaid.
