Definitions
You have outlined the main trouble point with Evolution as science. They are not rigorously enforced and once they are put into a pool of meaning they lose the ability to be discussed using rationality...and rationalism and rational analysis are central to the epistemology of any scientific theory.
Is Evolution a series of observations or a theory? Natural Selection is a Theory of Evolution. So is evolving a Theory of Evolution? What is a species...and I have seen many significantly different definitions of what a species may be..how do you go from a DNA based explanation of a ToE to the fossil record with no DNA?
These are just a few of the “problems” ToE tends to hang people up on. When our understanding of DNA is sufficient, I expect most of my skepticism of the “science” of Evolution will be undone, logically and rationally. But definitions are at the heart of rationalism, so there you go!
Terminology is too important to have major disagreements.
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