I will say at this point though, that originally I came here actually wanting to learn something about what science can prove nowadays...
Then you are wrong from the very beginning.
Science is not about "proof." Or truth, Truth, TRUTH, or even TRVTH.
Scientific theories are simply the best explanations we currently have for a particular dataset.
But Creationists generally reject both scientific evidence and the scientific method because they have produced evidence and theories that contradict their
a priori religious beliefs.
Because they reject science and the scientific method, Creationists do not feel the need to accept the definitions used by science either. To do so would, apparently, be to accept the findings of science.
Instead they tend to avoid any real study of science, and make up the most outrageous and inappropriate definitions of scientific terms, and they feel completely free to contradict the findings of scientists who have spent 40 or more years of hard work learning their particular fields. And they feel free to contradict the results of hundreds of years of investigations by thousands of scientists.
And on what basis do they contradict those scientists? Why, religious belief! Facts and evidence--who needs them?!? Just
believe and all of science will crumble before you.
On another website I witnessed a Creationist tell the world that the "second law of thermal documents" prohibited evolution. And another told us quite seriously that the odds against evolution and common descent were 1
720. He couldn't understand why we laughed at him.
So you need to go back to the beginning and look up the nature of the scientific method and scientific evidence, and look up the meaning of "hypothesis," "theory," and "proof" while you're at it. Then look up "dogma" and "faith" just for comparison. Figure where you are in the midst of all of this.
And if you find that the vast majority of scientists disagree with you, perhaps what you are peddling isn't science.
And if you really think about it you might realize that what Creationists are peddling is
the exact opposite of science.
But then you knew that when you came here to peddle your particular religious beliefs, didn't you?
Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.