[narby]

It is not able to be reproduced via a controlled experiment.

We can't reproduce continental drift in the lab either. What's your point?

[AmishDude]

"Continental drift" is quantitative. It can be measured. That doesn't make it a theory, only data. Only mutation can be measured. "Evolution", i.e., natural selection, cannot.

"Evolution" is like looking at the outcome of a coin toss and saying, "That coin was predisposed to turn up heads because, look, it did."

The bird has wings because nature killed those previous mutations that did not. Fine. That's a paradigm, a lens through which the results can be viewed.