Please tell me a few things.
1. What are the 20 transitional species leading whales? This I do not know existed even in books. For my enlightenment.
2. Where can I find the thousands of specimens of transitional species leading to humans? Are they complete? I would like to know.
The earliest form of evolution study I know of was called the Mohammedan theory of evolution. I know it existed before Darwin but you cant say that your argument was done and concluded with years before Darwin. The controversy is still going. There are enough and more scientists that question the theory and the validity of transitional and ancestral species while some even have new theories of evolution. So you cannot say that back in 1850 was when the actual controversy existed. What with Ruperts Alberts work? How about Albert SzentGyörgyi? No controversy? Sir Fred Hoyle? L.G Barnes? Kimamura? There are more disputes in Catacea taxons morphological charachterisation alone than disambiguation.
There is so much controversy about evolution in science as there is between the theory that children come from pregnant women and the theory that they are transported by storks.
Maybe we should teach this controversy at school as well, what do you think?
Ciao
- viole