The theory can and will be adjusted in the face of any new evidence.
It’s based on epistemology that recognizes the primacy of reality—not the primacy of an explanation (regardless of the source).
Even when the reality doesn't match it!!
Remember evolution = reality and reality = evolution!!
So you see, it is impossible for evolution not to reality.
And vice versa of course
Science!!
Really?
“..... If one’s representation of reality takes evolution to be irrelevant to understanding biology, then it is one’s representation, not evolution, whose relevance should be questioned!” A New Biology for a New Century
Carl R. Woese*
Question reality if you must but never evolution!
Science is based upon an epistemology that recognizes the primacy of reality - not the primacy of an explanation.
I might also add that it is also in no way dependent upon the personal beliefs or character of the ex plainer. Science is not carried out by saints or prophets, but men and women.
The sicko who figured out that Mad Cow Disease came from eating brains may have been in New Guinea for immoral purposes, but his finding is 100% correct.
The widely debunked, yet still frequent trotted out, deathbed renunciation of evolution from Darwin, is untrue; but immaterial to the science even if it was true.
If Newton on his deathbed had screamed out “it is Force equals mass times acceleration CUBED!” it wouldn't have changed the fact that it is actually force equals mass times acceleration squared.