A Reminder: It's Still Only a Theory

For those who have an unshakeable belief in a supreme being evolution, this should at least give you pause. The altar upon which you worship is about to be completely reworked:

Fossils in Kenya Challenge Linear Evolution
By John Noble Wilford, The New York Times

Two fossils found in Kenya have shaken the human family tree, possibly rearranging major branches thought to be in a straight ancestral line to Homo sapiens.

Scientists who dated and analyzed the specimens — a 1.44-million-year-old Homo habilis and a 1.55-million-year-old Homo erectus found in 2000 — said their findings challenged the conventional view that these species evolved one after the other. Instead, they apparently lived side by side in eastern Africa for almost half a million years.

If this interpretation is correct, the early evolution of the genus Homo is left even more shrouded in mystery than before. It means that both habilis and erectus must have originated from a common ancestor between two million and three million years ago, a time when fossil hunters had drawn a virtual blank. (link)

We knew what we knew. Now what we know isn't what we knew. And what we're soon to know may be completely different from what we now know. But, by God, we're sure we're right.

And we want to teach this in our public schools?