For me, the science of evolution is the best explanation for the world as we see today. Denying evolution equals denying reality.

According to a scientific paper published in 1982 and written by Jack Sepkoski and David M. Raup, we can identify five mass extinctions. They were originally identified as outliers to a general trend of decreasing extinction rates during the Phanerozoic, but as more stringent statistical tests have been...