It annoys me whenever other fundmentalists continue to argue against something which is substantiated by all evidence availabel on the subject. By their incredible ignorant actions they are merely drawing discredit upon Christianity and the Bible.
They should all wise up, wake up, and grow up. Evolution is here to stay because it is the mechanism God used to create man.
It is and will always be called a "theory" because "theory" means: "A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena."
Many people incorrectly believe "theory" means "hypothesis", that its use implies the ideas it represents are provisional or unproven. It does not. A theory may be a demonstrably true scientific principle but still be called a "theory".
Not true, at least by my understanding of what constitutes a "theory". Theories invoke some well developed set of causes, principles or mechanisms to explain some relevant set of scientific facts or laws. To my mind this is the key characteristic of theories, that they explain why the facts are as they are, rather than some way they might otherwise have been. (This is why good theories must be falsifiable, btw. The power to explain or account for some set of facts entails that the theory, if it be true, must prohibit the instantiation of many other sets of facts.)
Therefore, no matter how detailed or profound our understanding of "how it works" may become, evolution will always remain a theory simply because it is an explanatory principle used to account for numerous facts and phenomena in biology and related fields. Theories may be modified or falsified and abandoned, and they be more or less controversial, and they may be held with varying degrees of confidence, but they do not "graduate" or "advance" to being anything other than theories.
Indeed, quite the opposite of what you suggest, the more a theory says about "how it works," the more "theory-like" it becomes.
16 posted on 3/24/02 7:47 PM Hawaii-Aleutian by ZULU
Evolution alone is called atheism---secular humanism...spontaneous(big bang) matter/life---animal morphing(little bangs).
Evolution---matter development/life plus God is Creation.
You are both?
No problem?