>>56995941Which is itself complete bullshit. Not realizing something now doesn't mean it can never be better understood, and we've seen several examples of the pokemon world changing over time. Porygon's dex entry in gen 7 mentions it being created 20 years ago, Kanto in both gsc and hgss is different from rgby and frlg - not just in being smaller to save cartridge space but in ways that show the passage of time and advancement of technology with the bullet train and the radio tower, pla is all about showing what the Sinnoh region once was before modern cities were built, we've gon from the pokedex and communication devices being separate objects to integrating them into a single device the same way our world bundles everything into smart phones, storage technology has advanced to the point of having access to your boxes from anywhere when for decades you had to trek back to a pokemon center to use their computer.
This one's more implied than outright shown/stated, but I'd argue that successfully reviving mixed up fossils is its own advancement. Given how hard it'd be even to resurrect something that has all the right pieces and no conflicts of dna structures, and the ability to do so was presented as a new and exciting breakthrough in gen 1, making stuff that isn't even similar come together into a single living, breathing (suffering) organism must be a miracle.
If the goal is to give the pokemon world a fantastical analog for real scientific advancement then why stop at step 1?
