I agree with you to an extent. Every theory is not just a theory. In the scientific world something needs to be extremely widely accepted amongst the scientific community to be called a theory. To put this in perspective, something like gravity that we know to be true is still called a theory in the scientific world. Things like evolution and the big bang are called theories but are pretty much fact.
Something that is still in the testing phase or not widely accepted is called a hypothesis. When the average non-scientists uses the word theory they really mean hypothesis.
"Things like evolution and the big bang are called theories but are pretty much fact."
A scientific fact is something that has been proven using the "scientific method". The scientific method has never been applied to evolution. Any scientist who accepts it as fact has betrayed the purity of science. Furthermore, science is rapidly proving evolution to be an impossibility.
I would love to see the evidence that evolution is impossible. Please don't tell me you're a creationist who thinks the lack of a crocaduck in the fossil record disproves evolution.
Evolution has thus far stood up to the scientific method. There is no widely accepted alternative (in the scientific community).
Actually there is a complete lack of any transitional fossils of any kind whatsoever. That is why evolutionists have increasingly been turning to the "punctuated equilibrium" excuse. Nothing you were taught in your high school science class is believed by modern evolutionists.
And your last statement demonstrated that you clearly do not know what the scientific method is. To quote the Oxford English Dictionary, the scientific method is "a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses." The theory of evolution is a pseudo-scientific philosophy that is not supported by established scientific facts.
I'm pretty much done talking to you. You make up your own rules of language as you go along. You also assume I have not taken college-level biology classes.
Everything you were taught in your college biology class about evolution is not believed by modern evolutionists. Anyone who brings up fossils in defense of evolution is completely ignorant of modern evolutionary dogma.
Do you believe in god? Where are you on the 7 point belief scale?
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I agree with you to an extent. Every theory is not just a theory. In the scientific world something needs to be extremely widely accepted amongst the scientific community to be called a theory. To put this in perspective, something like gravity that we know to be true is still called a theory in the scientific world. Things like evolution and the big bang are called theories but are pretty much fact.
Something that is still in the testing phase or not widely accepted is called a hypothesis. When the average non-scientists uses the word theory they really mean hypothesis.
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"Things like evolution and the big bang are called theories but are pretty much fact."
A scientific fact is something that has been proven using the "scientific method". The scientific method has never been applied to evolution. Any scientist who accepts it as fact has betrayed the purity of science. Furthermore, science is rapidly proving evolution to be an impossibility.
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I would love to see the evidence that evolution is impossible. Please don't tell me you're a creationist who thinks the lack of a crocaduck in the fossil record disproves evolution.
Evolution has thus far stood up to the scientific method. There is no widely accepted alternative (in the scientific community).
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Actually there is a complete lack of any transitional fossils of any kind whatsoever. That is why evolutionists have increasingly been turning to the "punctuated equilibrium" excuse. Nothing you were taught in your high school science class is believed by modern evolutionists.
And your last statement demonstrated that you clearly do not know what the scientific method is. To quote the Oxford English Dictionary, the scientific method is "a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses." The theory of evolution is a pseudo-scientific philosophy that is not supported by established scientific facts.
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I'm pretty much done talking to you. You make up your own rules of language as you go along. You also assume I have not taken college-level biology classes.
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Everything you were taught in your college biology class about evolution is not believed by modern evolutionists. Anyone who brings up fossils in defense of evolution is completely ignorant of modern evolutionary dogma.