Almost all of science’s... oversights are only partial, but there are many examples. Science knows that even the smallest mass affects all other masses gravitationally, but ignores this when maintaining that lighter and heavier bodies fall at the same rate. Science knows that thermodynamic systems are ergodic, but ignores this when maintaining the second law of thermodynamics, i.e. that entropy always increases in an isolated system. Science knows that fields affect the arrangements of particles, but ignores this when saying that entropy equals increasing disorder.

Some scientists will probably point this out — one or another variant of “we knew that already” — when trying to hold the position that these are not... oversights, not really. But this actually makes this situation — these many what are clearly... oversights, as numerous as they are serious — all the more incomprehensible, and all the more important to confess and study openly and publicly.

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Newton’s Great... Oversight in his Theory of Gravity

Despite the well-known finding of Galileo a few decades earlier, that lighter and heavier bodies fall at the same rate, Newton failed to investigate that finding with his new theory of gravity.
If Newton, or anyone else then or since, had done so, they would have found that, in fact...
Newton’s own theory predicts that Galileo’s lighter and heavier bodies do NOT fall at the same rate.
But... scientists and educators still teach, and even think, that they do fall at the same rate.
This also has implications for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity (see Einstein’s Great... Oversights, just below) which says that lighter and heavier test particles accelerate at the same rate. They do so only in the context of a strictly absolute reference frame, something that Newton accepted (but wasn’t happy about), but Einstein rejected... “absolutely”.

 

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Einstein’s Great... Oversights in his Theory of Relativity; a little  deserved in places, but the essentials are there; more than readable overall

There are many synergistic, and very serious... oversights here. E.g. the equivalence principle — the fundamental concept of General Relativity — doesn’t approximate reality well enough, standard theory and experimental support for “gravitational lensing” actually suggest that atmospheric refraction is doing a major portion of the lensing of starlight around the Sun, and of course the extremely embarrassing result that lighter and heavier bodies do in fact fall at different rates unless one measures their acceleration-falling with respect to the absolute Newtonian spacetime frame of reference (see Newton’s Great... Oversight, just above).

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Entropy’s Great... Oversights; a little  deserved in places, but the essentials are there; more than readable overall

E.g.,  in fact, both thermodynamic entropy and “disorder” do NOT increase monotonically, and not only are they are NOT equivalent, in general they don’t even correlate...

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Comet Origin... Oversights; deserves more , but the essentials are there

Passing stars kick comets into orbits taking them near the Sun?!
The... oversighted answer is much simpler: gravity.
Swarms of proto-comets in e.g. the Kuiper Belt interact gravitationally, intermittently spitting out comets, some in the direction of Earth.
And this same mechanism that can turn proto-comets into comets can turn quiet asteroids into Earth destroying monsters.

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Cosmology... Oversights; deserves more , but the essentials are there

Scientists dismiss, without proper scientific consideration, many exciting possibilities: did the Big Bang take place in an already existing spacetime quantinuum? (Stars that seem older than the cosmos suggest this, as do scriptures that many consider sacred.)  Did the Big Bang take place like an earthquake, in fits and starts, just as an everyday explosion does if one looks examines it at the pico-second level? And many more...

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Creationism... Oversights needs lot more , not ready for primetime,

 

but some of what it will cover is also covered in:

Anti-Evolution... Oversights could use more , but the whole subject is immense and immensely confused, historically and currently.

The Creation vs. Evolution controversy is actually a war between the -isms of Anti-Evolution and Anti-Creation. Both sides are guilty of truly incredible... oversights.