A lot of the things about evolution haven’t been “proven” yet, in the sense of scientific proof. They can be seen by those who are willing to see them. And there IS proof of many of the steps.
In 1954 a change occurred in elementary and high school education when integration became law. Private religious schools were established to fill in the gap where the public schools had become unacceptable to many. And as a side result, evolution was taught to be false to many religious people.
I am not trying to start an argument here, or add to one. Just saying. I believe in evolution and I respect the views of those who don’t.
You understand, I hope, that in strict scientific language, no theory is ever "proved", right?
Instead, a falsifiable hypothesis can be confirmed by tests which are intended to falsify it.
If tests intended to falsify a hypothesis fail to do so -- in other words, if the hypothesis correctly predicted the test results, then scientists may accept the hypothesis as a confirmed theory -- at least until some future test successfully falsifies it.
That's how science is supposed to work -- nothing is ever "proved", nobody "believes" in a theory or has "faith" it's correct.
At very best, a long confirmed theory -- i.e., the Earth is globe-shaped -- may someday be observed and confirmed as a fact.
But still, in scientific language, the theory is not "proved" and nobody "believes" or has "faith" in it.
Rather it is simply accepted as a confirmed theory or observed as fact.
Such fine points of definition are important, I think, when in discourse with science deniers.
firebrand: "I am not trying to start an argument here, or add to one. Just saying. I believe in evolution and I respect the views of those who don’t."
Right, agreed, and I believe science deniers should be shown exactly the same degree of respect as they show to science itself and to scientists they disagree with.
You agree?