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The point is that they are challenged results. Something pops up in the fossil record and we alter our views of what species did this or that and when. If a a theory isn't called into question in a timely manner, some start to accept it as facts. But eventually it may be challenged. There's a lot to know.
Science proper is not a religion. When something is proven wrong there are no adherent clerics to defend it with calls of heresy, no wars or fistfights between bald heads and long-beards. They simply must accept the facts.