Nope, Theories explain sets of facts.
you have facts such as seeing a definite time-layering of fossils different species and genera and such in the geological record.
If all species were created in a week they'd all be jumbled together.
Evolution is a theory that explains the above facts, and many others.
The basic problem is that what scientists call a "hypothesis" is what the average person uses the term "theory" for.
Relativity is still called a "Theory." So is Quantum Mechanics.
Exactly. When I studied Music Theory I was not reviewing someone's hypothesis about musical structure, I was having music and composition explained to me.
"Theories explain sets of facts."
Maybe, perhaps, if, probably, possibly, etc...........
Ok, again, what you are describing is evidence not facts. Theories explain evidence, which when the evidence holds up in testing and research becomes fact, facts then help validate theories, which eventually, in very very few cases become what is know in science as a Tautology, or truth. If you studied the scientific method you would know this.
Yes, and most physicists realize that one day relativity could be replaced by something better... just as relativity replaced newtonian physics.
I'm always dismayed by the "scientific theory doesn't mean... like... you know... theory" argument.
Scientific theories are useful. Most branches of scientific study couldn't even exist without theories. But Theories Are Replaceable...
I'm not saying we've yet found the theory to replace evolution... (i.e. We shouldn't be teaching ID in science classrooms.) I'm not even saying for sure that we ever will (but we probably will). But emphasizing that evolution is a scientific theory is not the same as saying "we know for sure that natural selection caused the different species just like we know for sure that [insert favorite theory here] happens". We're sure of neither and probably will never be.