[Physicist]

“I think so many of the textbooks make it appear that evolution is a scientific fact and it’s not,” said Graves, R-Oklahoma City. “Even the U.S. Supreme Court says it’s a theory, so I was just trying to make that clear.

The sequential variation of flora and fauna throughout the fossil record is the scientific FACT of evolution.

Darwinian natural selection is the THEORY of how the fact of evolution came about.

Confusingly, the fact and theory are both called "evolution".

Almost all of the people who are against the teaching of evolution object much more strongly to the fact of evolution than they do to the theory, because it's the fact that contradicts most creation myths. Because of the confusion between terms, they think that by finding flaws in the theory, they can overturn the fact. But they can't.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The sequential variation of flora and fauna throughout the fossil record is the scientific FACT of evolution.

You can do better than that, can't you? Showing me various species of extinct plants and animals that happen to look similar to each other is a fact that they existed NOT that they evolved.

[PatrickHenry]

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[nmh]

LOL!

Will "natrual selection" ever kick in? If it has, then why are you here? Surely YOU would have been weeded out.

[FreeReign]

The sequential variation of flora and fauna throughout the fossil record is the scientific FACT of evolution. Darwinian natural selection is the THEORY of how the fact of evolution came about. Confusingly, the fact and theory are both called "evolution". Almost all of the people who are against the teaching of evolution object much more strongly to the fact of evolution than they do to the theory, because it's the fact that contradicts most creation myths. Because of the confusion between terms, they think that by finding flaws in the theory, they can overturn the fact. But they can't.

Well said.

[biblewonk]

The sequential variation of flora and fauna throughout the fossil record is the scientific FACT of evolution.

The big flood killed off a lot of plants and dinosaurs but that fact is what is recorded in the "fossil record".