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Author Topic:   The Definition for the Theory of Evolution
crashfrog
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Message 176 of 216 (416745)
08-17-2007 4:06 PM
Reply to: Message 175 by Refpunk
08-17-2007 3:30 PM


Re: topic please
If there were evidence, then it would no longer be a theory, but a fact.
That's not really how it works. Theories don't graduate into facts.
Theories explain facts. Theories, in a way, are made out of facts. That's why we have things like the germ theory of disease, which explains the fact that diseases are caused by germs. Or the theory of gravity, which explains the fact that gravity attracts massive objects together.
Or the theory of evolution, one of the best-supported theories in all of science, which explains the fact that creatures evolve by random mutation and natural selection acting on the genetics of populations.
See?

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