The THEORY of Evolution is just THAT....a THEORY....passed on as "fact"
Do people really not understand what a theory is? Why is it offered up as if it were the opposite of "fact"? Scientific theories are not mere speculation thrown out there on a whim, but are explanations based on large bodies of evidence. Just think of all the theories out there which nobody treats with such hubris as they do evolution, like gravity, plate tectonics, heliocentrism, or that matter is composed of atoms. These are all theories too, after all. Sometimes I wonder what people really think science is all about.
“Do people really not understand what a theory is?”
Of course they don’t. Lay people are more familiar with the other common usage of “theory”, like when the guys on CSI come up with a “theory” of how a crime was committed. In common parlance, the word does carry the notion of an “educated guess”.
The scientific definition isn’t actually that far off, except that it is an educated guess which seems to conform to the observed phenomenon, and so has reached a level of common acceptance. Of course, some evolutionists or evolution apologists like to conflate “theory” with “settled science”, ala Al Gore. Just because something is a theory doesn’t mean it can’t be shown to be flawed, incomplete, or simply a coincidentally expedient representation of reality that doesn’t truly reflect the actual mechanisms being described.
SHOW US THE EVOLUTION!! ONE FACT.