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Originally Posted by AnthonyCook
You clearly have no understanding of the scientific use of the word 'theory'.
It's not synonymous with 'guess'.
I suggest you read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evoluti...heory_and_fact
Gravity is a fact and a theory. Evolution is a fact and a theory.
"Today, nearly all biologists acknowledge that evolution is a fact. The term theory is no longer appropriate except when referring to the various models that attempt to explain how life evolves... it is important to understand that the current questions about how life evolves in no way implies any disagreement over the fact of evolution. " - Neil Campbell
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You are taking the word "evolution" far out of context. To suggest that creatures, through reproduction, evolve over time is indeed a fact.
The evolution we are speaking of, however, is the idea that evolution and evolution alone is what created life as we know it today. That theory is just that: a theory just as Creationism or the idea of intelligent design is. Use the word "fact" any way you want, what we are comparing here is theory vs. law, and a law evolution isn't.
Evidence supports both sides, and no one side is "better" than another, but just because you believe one to be true over the other does not make it concretely so.
After all if there was a right and wrong in this discussion there wouldn't ever be a debate about its truth would there now?