Speculation

Mainstream scientists see no controversy. Evolution is well supported by many examples of changes in various species leading to the diversity of life seen today.

"I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale," Charles Darwin speculated. Scientists now know that Darwin had the right idea but the wrong animal: instead of looking at bears, he should have instead been looking at cows and hippopotamuses.

The story of the origin of whales is one of evolution's most fascinating tales (biggest fiction) and one of the best examples scientists have of natural selection.

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is one of the best substantiated theories in the history of science, supported by evidence from a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including paleontology, geology, genetics and developmental biology.

Given enough time and enough accumulated changes, natural selection can (?) create entirely new species. It can (?) turn dinosaurs into birds, apes into humans, and amphibious mammals into whales.

Most times, mutations are either harmful or neutral but in rare instances, a mutation might prove beneficial to the organism. If so, it will become more prevalent in the next generation and spread throughout the population. In this way, natural selection guides the evolutionary process, preserving and adding up the beneficial mutations and rejecting the bad ones.
The evolution of the whale’s blowhole, for example, might have happened …

American Museum of Natural History in New York
The Hall of Human Origins will open to the public on Feb. 10, 2007.

Scientists … use DNA to patch together a family tree of sorts. … more than 7 million years (?) of hominid evolution … recreate the faces of our hominid ancestors from skull fragments … a Neanderthal skullcap discovered in 1856; represents the first recognized proof that other kinds of humans once walked the Earth … (the first edition of "The Origin of Species" in 1859)

The last section of the Hall of Human Origins explores the things that make us human … We are changing the world in ways that no other species has managed to do … We can’t wait for evolution to come in on its white horse and fine tune us a bit more so that we’ll react in a more responsible way with the world around us.

It is always so amazing how people are so inconsistent with themselves. Here we have a couple of articles where scientists – or media – are once again assuming ‘proven’ evolution. First, if they use arguments like this in court to prove things it is no wonder that we are in so much trouble ! Lets go to something a little more factual, math. Would this kind of proof be useful proving math theorems ? It is not even good hit or miss by gosh and by golly guessing ! Second, that last paragraph. IF and ‘Since’ as they say, everything is a result of evolution, chance, and it all started with non personal highly compact dot they can expect us to “react in a more responsible” way, how??? Why would they ??? I am more than a bit confused ! Please define “responsible” in this senerio !