Even as the evolution wars rage, on school boards and in courtrooms, biologists continue to accumulate empirical data supporting Darwinian theory. Two extraordinary discoveries announced this week should go a long way to providing even more of the evidence that critics of evolution say is lacking.
One study produced what biblical literalists have been demanding ever since Darwin -- the iconic "missing links." If species evolve, they ask, with one segueing into another, where are the transition fossils, those man-ape or reptile-mammal creatures that evolution posits?
Sounds nice but, as the article states But refutation is in the eye of the beholder. No scientific discovery will end the evolution wars. Simply because ID is not at all interested in science or evidence at all; it exists solely outside of those bounds. Thus, there will always be gaps, no evidence will ever be good enough, and a million 'unexplainable' structures will always be waiting in the wings. Work like this is still important, however, since it will eventually away the majority of opinion even though strict adherents will remain.