Is Evolution JUST a theory?

Question

NO! It is also a fact. The theory of Evolution (the how and why) supports the fact of Evolution (the what).

PLEASE to all who believe Evolution is "just" a theory - go to this site.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html

From the site:
"Well evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape-like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

Answer 1

Gravity is JUST a theory.
The theory of relativity is JUST a theory.

These morons don't even know what they are talking about.

A theory is a hypothesis that has been tested and proven to be correct many times.

The Irony of it is, that saying it is "just" a theory in the same class where they have to memorize exactly what a theory really is, kind of makes whoever put the idea of "just" a theory out there look like a moron- which of course is "just" a fact.

Answer 2

Evolution by natural selection, the central concept of the life's work of Charles Darwin, is a theory. It's a theory about the origin of adaptation, complexity, and diversity among Earth's living creatures. If you are skeptical by nature, unfamiliar with the terminology of science, and unaware of the overwhelming evidence, you might even be tempted to say that it's "just" a theory. In the same sense, relativity as described by Albert Einstein is "just" a theory. The notion that Earth orbits around the sun rather than vice versa, offered by Copernicus in 1543, is a theory. Continental drift is a theory. The existence, structure, and dynamics of atoms? Atomic theory. Even electricity is a theoretical construct, involving electrons, which are tiny units of charged mass that no one has ever seen. Each of these theories is an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's what scientists mean when they talk about a theory: not a dreamy and unreliable speculation, but an explanatory statement that fits the evidence. They embrace such an explanation confidently but provisionally—taking it as their best available view of reality, at least until some severely conflicting data or some better explanation might come along

Answer 3

The key word to the quote is "yet to be discovered". Agreed, there is fact. There are bone fragments, and carbon dating, etc. Yet at the same time you must put faith in the "theory" that it is true to believe it.

The difference between gravity and evolution is that gravity can be tested and reproduced, evolution can not. Until scientists can create life from non-life (completely randomly) and then they can show this life to self-organize, program its own dna, and then have that lifeform turn into something completely different, then evolution will only be a theory, and a poor one at best.

I thought this was an interesting quote... "According to this argument, the probability that evolution is the correct explanation of life as we know it may approach 99.9999...9% but it will never be 100%." This statement is quite misdirected, the word "MAY" being the key word. The probability of evolution is not 99.999/100, but rather, 1/(3x10^16) or more. That is 1 chance in 10,000,000,000,000,000...

This is important. When you research evolution and scientific theories look at all the deceptive keywords.... "MAY", "PROBABLY", "COULD HAVE", etc... They use this language when the actually have no evidence and are speculating or when they try to misdirect people.

Answer 4

Evolution theory that excludes the concept of a Creator is just a theory with weak circumstantial evidences and with a lot of holes in it. However, God the Almighty has used some form of evolution in His creation otherwise every species of every living things would have been a carbon copy clone of each other but it is not so. Human beings are distinguishable in colours, sizes etc based on the environments in which they were loving through innumerable generations. The same is happening to a different degree in human beings through inter-marriage and in plants through open pollination. To think that evolution negates the idea of a Creator is a nonsense as well as non-science.

Answer 5

There is tremendous evidence for micro evolution, not macro. In the mind of the atheist, once micro is established, the rest is just more time on a wider scale. But to skeptics, we need to know, understand, and most importantly see how naturalistic evolution can mutate a completely new species from an old one.

Answer 6

There's NO proof that people came from monkeys. If you believe that, it's your right, but it's based on your faith, not of fact.

Evolution is a THEORY - not a LAW. I respect the science that's gone into it, and the deeper the science gets into cellular biology, the stronger the case for intelligent design. Science will one day come to the fact of a creator. It's the only explanation.

Matter can neither be created nor destroied - it merely changes forms. If that's true, then where'd it all come from?

Answer 7

the fact is everything on the planet evolves. nothing is static. even as i am a christian answering that "YES Evolution is a fact" please note what i mean by this= everything changes and every single person evolves daily. all of this does not support Darwin's theory at all. he Guessed what he was saying was correct, with no viable data to go on.

Answer 8

I don't want to sound sacrilegious, but how do we know that Adam and Eve were not ape like? By the pictures, drawn by "men". And also, how do we know that God was not an alien and we were created in his image? How do we know that this is the only planet that he spawned his seeds? We don't know that the facts are true or false. How do we really know that the Bible is true or false? We don't! We only know what we have been told and what has been written in books, such as the Holy Bible, by "Men", so in essence, we don't know anything. We only know what we have been taught. Don't get me wrong. I'm not denying that the Bible is true, but I'm also not saying that it is either. Just a little something to think about.

Answer 9

It's not a theory, as it is observed and recorded by scientist who study animals evolution in the Galapagos island. Ex. A breed of bird that grew 4inches of beak in 3 generations that was caused by drought.

Answer 10

when the word "theory" is placed into context of scientific study, it means more than merely an idea. the word theory to scientists is used to describe a phenomena that has been tested over and over again and has yet to be disproved.