However, recent articles indicate a change has occurred in the thinking of some evolutionists. A major source of confusion in analysing the creationist argument is the muddling of the distinction between evolution as fact versus evolution as theory. No good Darwinian s belief in evolution stands on the fossil evidence for gradual evolution so nor will his belief fall by it. This author then, plainly states that the fossil evidence is no longer important in fact, it doesn't matter what you find in the fossil record, it will never contradict evolution anyway. Another area where modern evolutionists are changing direction, concerns man s position in the evolutionary scheme of things.
Most people have the idea that evolution is an onward, upward process.
This idea comes from the many evolutionary books that use such terms as the ladder of evolution and the man is the pinnacle of this process. We see many diagrams of evolutionary trees with man at the top. We are told evolution is a gradual change shaped by more or less directional processes . Some two million years or so ago, ape man began to evolve into Homo. . . Now man is recognizing that as that as he reshapes the world and replaces the relentless but stabilizing action of physical selection with a new, cultural evolution and inheritance, he is taking control of the future.