With the development of modern space-based telescopes and the past decade or more of collection of data on both comets and celestial bodies found to orbit the sun at distance greater than that of the planet Neptune, a review of the current data suggests that there can be no longer any doubt that the Kuiper belt does exist. However, the objects contained therein probably more properly should be called transNeptunian objects because there is no reason that the solar system ends at Neptune and a new region of space begins. On the other hand, there is no evidence that the putative Oort cloud exists. The Kuiper belt was originally believed to be the primary source from which the Oort cloud was populated over the alleged 4.6-billion-year history since our solar system formed. The latter still has not been found, yet it is critically needed as the only source of long-period comets for the uniformitarian theory. However, I suggest that the existence of short-period comets as a young solar system argument may no longer be tenable.