Well what if you look at it this way, fossils surely helped in understanding how our timeline occurred. But due to infinite catastrophic events most of them are gone over time. Leaving researchers dependent on very less available data. We got to agree that the data we got are pretty much close to 0.001% leaving most of the facts uncovered. Maybe fossils are doing us a favour in understanding evolution or maybe since we are completely dependent on inadequate data we are still lacking a lot of understanding. The recent theories after the discovery of the sumerian tablets, destroys darvins theory of evolution. The thing this makes all if this controversial friction between these theories is that both contain the truth, but darvins theory of evolution contains certain loopholes which the sumerian tables quite discloses.