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To: Soliton

I must have been asleep for the past x years. Seems I’ve always heard of the “theory” of evolution - I guess I missed when it was officially renamed the “fact” of evolution.


13 posted on 09/30/2008 7:40:22 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: Rembrandt
I must have been asleep for the past x years. Seems I’ve always heard of the “theory” of evolution - I guess I missed when it was officially renamed the “fact” of evolution.

It's a thoroughly tested theory supported by mountains of evidence.

17 posted on 09/30/2008 7:44:29 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: Rembrandt
Cf. Evolution as Fact and Theory by Stephen Jay Gould ( 1981 ) :

Darwin continually emphasized the difference between his two great and separate accomplishments: establishing the fact of evolution, and proposing a theory—natural selection—to explain the mechanism of evolution.

34 posted on 09/30/2008 8:36:32 PM PDT by dr_lew
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