Dr. Kier and his associates, of course, do represent the modern scientific and educational establishments, which apparently are devotedly dedicated to converting everyone to their own materialistic faith, through the nation's schools, museums and other tax-supported educational institutions. Yet, with all this propaganda, it is remarkable that the host of Smithsonian-related scientists who designed the exhibits were apparently unable to come up with any real evidence of evolution. There are numerous excellent exhibits depicting horizontal variation within the kind, but these have nothing to do with real evolution. The study of the origin and development of this diversity is called evolutionary biology. This exhibit explains how most scientists think the evolutionary process works.
Evolution is the concept that species change through time.
Over millions of years small changes accumulate to be come large differences, new speices arise, others die out. Rates of change vary greatly, and directions of change are unpredictable. Nothing at all is said about such newer concepts as stochastic evolution, sociobiology, mutator versus structural genes, neutral mutations, and especially punctuated equilibrium. Perhaps these current concepts might sound too much like creationism to the museum's undiscerning visitors, so officials decided to stick to the same old concepts that had already indoctrinated two generations of young people into an evolutionary faith. Such changes were clearly energized, according to the official inscriptions, by natural selection acting on recombinations of genetic factors already present, thus having no bearing on real progressive evolution.