Matt Tucker writes:
One cannot just pronounce that evoltion is true when Darwin himself acknowledged that his theory was false.
Please cite this statement of Darwin's which you claim exists and the internet source from whence you retrieved it. I'll give ya dollars to donuts that the quotation -- if it even exists -- is taken horribly out of context.
Regardless, even Darwin's own opinions on the matter are irrelevant to the validity of evolutionary theory. The evidence that has been collected since his time is undeniable.
Evolution is a theory.
Evolution is a Fact and a Theory. "Theory" in this context does not mean "guess" as it commonly does in the vernacular. Evolutionary theory is what accounts for a wide array of evolutionary facts such as descent with modification, heritability, mutation, genetic drift, etc...
In very much the same way, musical theory is what accounts for a wide array of musical facts like consonance, dissonance, key, harmony, etc...
Surely you wouldn't claim that music is "just a theory," would you?
Everything in the science world is a theory until it can be proven without a doubt to everyone...
So then a round earth is "just a theory" until every last member of the Flat Earth Society is convinced of its factual basis? I think not.
...except in the case of scientific laws.
The Law of Gravity is an element of the Theory of Gravity, the Ideal Gas Law is an element of the Kinetic Molecular Theory, etc, etc...
As you should see by now, scientific theories incorporate scientific laws and actually have a higher status than the very laws that they integrate.
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