When we were younger, the idea fed to us regarding the
theory of evolution was that it – quite literally – meant that our ancestors
were monkeys (much like the ones we saw in Disney’s Tarzan or National
Geographic). We were made to understand that the common as well as professional
opinion on the matter was of satire, that the only ones who believed in it
were, for their own reasons, people who refused to accept either religion or
even God.
As I grew up, I learned the exact opposite: the theory of
evolution is the most important theory in all of biology according to most
scientists and researchers. It is as important to biology as plate tectonics is
to geology, as one man had put it. So what are the misconceptions that have
pushed most of the world to reject this very important idea?
