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Soon after the initial theory of Evolution was put forward simultaneously by Darwin and Alfred Wallace in the late 1850s, there have a number of highly significant discoveries in a number of disciplines.

The classical work on hereditary by Austrian Monk Gregor Mendel published in German later in the mid-1860s was re-discovered and publicised 30-40 years later, and Mendel's primary tenets about the transmission of hereditary characteristics from parent organisms to their offspring "were integrated with the chromosome theory of inheritance by Thomas Hunt Morgan in 1915; they became the core of classical genetics."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelian_inheritance

In the 1930s and 1940s "the modern synthesis" combined Mendelian genetics with Darwin's theory of natural selection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_evolutionary_synthesis

Subsequent microscopic work, especially to elucidate the molecular nature of chromosomes - DNA - and other work, in areas as diverse as palaeontology to artificial animal breeding, have verified Evolution and its mechanisms into fact
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msjane,
Sorry - a little tardy in getting back to you as I missed your reply.

Yes, I agree that you have reasonably argued that my reference to faith in general was an overstatement - it is part of the human condition...perhaps I should have used the term "religious faith".

Runner> "Simple observation of creation speaks clearly of a Creator. Your faith leads you to another conclusion but don't be so arrogant as to call it true science. It is a joke and any thinking person not blinded by dogma knows it."

Even if this showed that the views of scientists were as nothing compared with the views of the faithists who cling desperately to Creationism, which it doesn't, you still haven't explained why the Catholic, Anglican and Episcopal churches are just as pathetic and wrong as the scientists you dismiss so easily. Tell us, please: how did the major churches prove to be just as wrong as the scientists? Please also tell us the views of your own church on evolution and creationism.

The Catholic church strongly supports Evolutionary Theory as the tools by which God works

Yet another bleat about 'the Xtian vote'... too much!

Stop being so incestuous and start to think about being a human first please.

Who cares about 'the xtian vote' except that it brings outdated, outmoded, back-woods 'thinking' with it?

If we had 'Islamic' thinking driving policy we'd all be enjoying Sharia Law in no time... so lets start now to prevent that sort of lowgrade outcome, by not thinking in terms of 'Christian outcomes', 'Christian laws' or 'Christian policies'...and let's start demanding well thought through 'policy' and 'laws'.

We might all be a lot freer if we put 'organised religion' back where it belongs... under a rock, where Peter found it.