If you think Evolution is the truth, then why....?

Question

Is it called a theory?

Answer 1

a very good question

Answer 2

Some people here have already correctly explained the meaning of the word "theory" in science, trouthunter gave a very good definition.
I would like to add that this is really what is the difference between science and religion, that scientists don't come up with some idea and say this is the ultimate truth now, they don't claim to be prophets or something like this, but they look at the facts and seriously think about how they can be explained best, and they improve their theories over time. And this is the main reason why I always trust science more than religion.
And the theory of evolution is the best explanation we have for the facts we know.

Answer 3

Actually evolution is a scientific theoretical approach that can be (and for all intents and purposes- see: scientific/empirical tendency) tested and has so many proven and exemplified factual evidences that it has been considered a factual process for some time now. Where have you been?

If you don't want to acknowledge this widely understood fact perhaps you should read more on both sides of the subject before simply making yourself a nuisance to others "for Christ".

The use of the word "truth" has nothing to do with it. Truth is down the hall in the philosophy/comparative religion department. The same department that "intelligent design" should be in because it has no factual basis or testable process. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." - nothing more as the biblical god will not allow anything more than this.

Creationism/intelligent design or whatever the next term to be forced upon us by the fanatical Reich to bring there religious beliefs into the scientific realm in still just that- belief. Truth may indeed be found in "intelligent design" (try looking into the ideology of theistic evolution if you can tolerate the potential of a middle ground on the subject) but it's still a belief- not a fact, and most certainly not testable through empirical evidence. You are simply attacking what you can't tolerate in others- it's called prejudgment or intolerance- pick one.

I have a question though. Why do the people on the right ALWAYS, ALWAYS ask this question ad infinitem when it is plain you don't really want the truth or an objective answer. Hatred of other people's scientific discovery is hardly "Christ-like" behavior. Your religious beliefs sound more like the rantings of a hate group. Inciting your fellows toward confusion or anger to just be annoying makes your religious ideology unappealing and an ignorant avoidance of the truth. "God is not the author of confusion."

In short, you make "followers of Christ" look like dense, redundant and fanatical morons. You do your beliefs a disservice by not admitting you don't know enough to ask the deeper questions of religious systems of belief or the scientific complexities of scientific tendencies/empirical probability.

The sad part is you just want to proselytize and recruit more people into your hatred of other's discoveries. You'll simply ask this question again and again because you hate the answer and those who propose it. Try the golden rule or just shutting up if you can't add anything intelligent to the design. There are infinite amounts of subject matter that simply aren't referred to in the bible.

Get used to it. Get over it. And perhaps a good place to start is realizing the Aramaic word for "day" doesn't necessarily mean 24 hours.

Answer 4

The same reason the Theory of Relativity is a theory. The natural world can be explained through theories, but theories can be proved or disproved. this can take a long time to document (like evolution.)
Your use of the word truth is misleading. There are very few "Truths" in the world.
Your religion, however, is a belief, not a truth. And there are millions of people in the world who think you've picked the wrong one, no matter what you believe.

Answer 5

The theory of evolution is that humans share a common ancestor to apes. The science of evolution is fact. The tuberculosis virus has evolved to become resistant to our old treatments. The theory and the science get confused a lot.

Answer 6

You have struck a perfect answer yourself.
I dont believe in the Theory of Evolution
Big Bang Theory has been backed by scientific proof and has nullified the theory of evolution.Please feel free to clear your doubts.

Answer 7

This is a common misconception by people who are not familiar with the language of science.

Have you ever heard of the Theory of Relativity, by Albert Einstein? How about the Theory of Gravity, but Issac Newton? You probably haven't heard of Maxell's Theory of Electromagenetism, but it and these other examples Theories are all commonly accepted (at least by scientists) to be accurate descriptions of some aspect of reality.

In science, the word Theory is really closer to the word "theorem" from mathematics than it is to the common usage of "theoretical".

Answer 8

Gravity is a theory by scientific standards (as in definition of what a scientific theory is). If you aren't comfortable with scientific theories, then I plege you start by disproving the gravitation theory by jumping off a building.

Not doing it? Well then there may be more to scientific theories then you currently understand. I suggest you take a college science course.

Answer 9

Scientific theory is something that has been tested and stands up to scrutiny. The theory is the process, how it happens... evolution itself has happened and its clearly obvious to anyone who studies the subject. The fundamental flaw in your argument (and this has appeared here in Y!A many a time) is that you are using the wrong definition for the word "theory."

Answer 10

Same reason religion is called a faith. It's the best model we have at the moment to explain things, but we'd be stupid and pompous to assume our current understanding of it is wholly and soley correct. It leaves room for growth, new revolations and modifications in the presentation of something that the lay man would consider to be fact. That doesn't mean we question the bulk of the idea. A fact is only a fact if it can not be disproven, but since one can never know for sure but only trust and assume when one has arrived at a perfect truth, we leave it open ended.

Answer 11

It started as a theory and has since been proven... some people, such as yourself, refuse to believe the truth and continue to call it a theory so as to confuse the issue.