MC Banhammer Posted:

It’s a prediction based on recorded evidence and current speed. It’s not a “fact”, it’s a prediction. One with a very, very good chance of being true, if all else remains equal and nothing comes along to interfere with that prediction.

My point was only that direct observation is not required in science. All available evidence is considered.

MC Banhammer Posted:

But has the common ancestor between humans and monkeys been discovered in the fossil record? Do we have any direct proof that dinosaurs became birds?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils

Even if there were no fossils at all, there’s more than enough evidence from modern genetics to come to the conclusion that we’re descended from a common ancestor.

Edit: BTW, I wasn’t calling you dumb, I was calling the idea that science works solely on direct observation of events dumb.