Here is an observation for you then: Unlike a scientific law, or practical theory, which we may depend upon for the development of technology (for testing, or for other utilities) the theory of an all encompassing evolutionary schema is not a... fact.
IMHO, if the progression is ideology to speculation to theory to fact - then I would say the theory of evolution is going backwards.
As evidence I assert the randomness pillar in the equation random mutation + natural selection > species stands defeated because regulatory control genes are not mutable.
A better formulation for today might be autonomous self-organizing biological complexity + natural selection> species - but it shouldn't be called the theory of evolution since the first formulation fails.
I never claimed it was a fact. It is more than "just a theory", however, which is the bad argument made by many creationists.