Some Hopeful Science News for America

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3. Evolution is largely genetics and molecular biology.

Whales, orcas, and cattle are biologically related. Too many similarities in their genome maps to deny it. Of course their ancestries diverged tens, maybe hundreds of millions of years ago, but at some point they had common ancestries. Horses and canines have evolved through tremendous bodily and genetic changes, partly as a result of human selective breeding. It now takes colossally willful ignorance to deny that evolution has occurred among species. But some humans of the fundamentalist variety have accomplished it, much to our collective misery.