(March 23, 2019 at 11:34 pm)fredd bear Wrote: Another (short) Ted lecture, which I found fascinating, and hope some members will too.
He makes the interesting point that the scientific debate about Evolution was over by 1870. From that time until now, the international scientific community has simply accepted Evolution as fact. There is no debate, except in the minds of the deeply ignorant and bloody minded dogmatic religious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18YwBwIK...jreload=10
DNA went beyond what you are pointing out here and really put the nail in the coffin of old mythology. But yea, evolution was widely accepted even before the Scopes Trial.
