News stories thrive on conflict and intrigue, and one theme presents science and religion as opposing forces—reason struggling to overcome divine revelation.
The argument “common design means common ancestry” falsely claims to prove an assumption about the past by pointing out similar body plans in organisms today.
If evolution means “change,” then yes, natural selection is evolution/change. Typically evolution means that natural selection is molecules-to-man evolution.
The fact that some people in history believed the earth to be flat highlights the fallibility of man’s reasoning. Throughout history, scientists’ confident assertions have later been disproven.
There’s a fundamental difference between operational science, which can be tested through repeatable experimentation, and historical science, which cannot.