Or is it they 'theorize' that that is what happened based upon a 'new' species emerging and an 'old' species disappearing around the same time?
We have never observed the creation of a new species by God either. For that theory we have only one old book of dubious provenance.
Most of the critical measurements of gravity, such as the Transit of Mercury are inferential as well. There are periods when observation is not possible, so the old Mercury could disintigrate and a new Mercury be formed while no one was looking.
Those who grasp at straws like that are too emotionally invested in their particular point of view to make rational decisions.
So9
You didn't answer a single question I posed!
Try staying on topic next time.
I believe it was 'evolution'.
Not 'religion' or 'gravity'.
Neither of which I mentioned.
So are you trying to suggest that gravity is merely a theory? Your notions are too absurd to discuss. Adios.