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Christians have also made mistakes and yet you accept Christianity.
They can and sometimes do.
That's unfortunate because it obvious that it has and continues to go on.
Then you blew-off my link on speciation that shows modern-day "proof".
No I didn't blow it off. However it happened they didn't morph from whales to humans. The person that prompted me to finally pray was not even of the belief I finally accepted but he was used (I believe) by God to prompt me to reach out to God. Not to him. I never spoke to that preacher again, he had a radio show. It was a long journey. And I yes, am grateful to God for assisting me on this journey.
I don't accept all forms of what is called by the many as Christianity.
Remember the scripture that said the road is narrow.
There are speciation events within the last 100 years. The problem is that there is no hard line in biology. Even with the reproductive definition of "species" there are populations that exist now that do not interbreed but when forced to they can. Is that a new species or not. And there are species that will not normally interbreed that will when forced, but their offspring are of decreased fertility. Then there are two different populations that can interbreed when forced, but their offspring are almost always sterile. In other words even the breeding definition of species is fuzzy. And that fuzzyness was predicted by the theory.
There's a lot more natural recent speciation events than that. The Daphne Finch was produced about 50 years ago and took only two or three generations to establish itself.
Why would you need to be a biologist? I'm asking what should be considered a fairly simple question. I'll just guess that the ring species of Arctic gulls is a bird. Right? So let me keep it simple. Homo sapiens, in your opinion, is or isn't the latest species/form/animal in the process, but you think a bird is? So I'm guessing that you and others believe further species evolved after homo sapiens, they're only in the ape family. OK, so I'll stick to apes. Since that's what so many believe, homo sapiens are part of the ape family. Anything in the ape family after homo sapiens?
Other species unrelated to us have evolved since Homo sapiens evolved.
I guess I remember the usual famous drawing of little chimp like animals turning into homo sapiens. The question is what did the first ape-like beings evolve from?
Apes evolved about 20-25 million years ago from Old World monkey stock (Catarrhini).
That is asked rather awkwardly. Are you asking if there are any other apes more recent than Homo sapiens?
The drawing is only an artists interpretation. Don't give that too much credence. In fact it is usually incredibly wrong since the first species that you see is often a modern chimp.
Without looking it up, let's say that is the thinking of scientists today. What did the "Old World monkey stock" evolve from if you know?
I don't know offhand, but I'm confident it was some small mammal that evolved out of what was left of the world after the Chicxulub impact that resulted in the extinction of most of the major dinosaur lines.
And why the questions? Eventually we will run into an "I don't know". What difference does that make?
The question in my mind is this: scientists estimate that chimpanzees evolved so many years ago, same with hominids, yet chimpanzees remain chimpanzees, humans remain humans, platypuses remain platypuses. So where is any evidence of chimpanzees evolving, etc.?
I still get the impression that your concept of evolution is a linear chain that includes all species physically transforming into the next in a single step and that species that follow are directly related to the preceding species by that chain of transformation. If I am correct in your concept, that is not how it is explained to work by science or the evidence. Evolution is a branching, with basal groups much more distantly related to other basal groups, while those within the group are increasingly more closely related. We are only distantly related to monkeys as primates, but more closely related to the other great ape species as the hominids which are still primates.
What mistakes are you talking about? Just to be clear, I accept that Moses lived as written, Jesus lived as written in the holy scriptures. I accept this with reason and faith. So what mistakes are you talking about?