You are discussing the issue from a contemporary context.
The point you are making was much more ambiguous vis a vis what was considered evolutionary theory 100 years ago.
Of course I am writing from a contemporary context. I was replying to a poster who thinks that Newtonian physics lacks such philosophical issues, which obviously is true only from a contemporary context. Newtonian physics REVOLUTIONIZED things philosophically. No longer were the laws of nature different on earth and in the heavens. Newton showed that the laws of nature are universal, and in a very real sense allowed science to really proceed. So, yes, I was responding from a modern perspective to someone who was arguing from a similar perspective that evolution TODAY carries such philosophical baggage, when that is not the case.