Thanks for your reply...well said.
However, evolution is NOT a fully proven theory...compelling yes, but not 100% established...Yet, the education establishment does not treat the subject as theory, but as fact, and they atack ANY descent...even from evolution scientist....
Please see my reply to CarolinaGuitarman.
A couple points:
They label, without any qualifications, as FACT all facets of evolotion theory, defending it as SCIENCE, and suggesting that ANYTHING (not just ID) that does not rubber stamp their views is NOT science....
I don't know of any scientist that has labeled as fact every facet of evolutionary theory. Specific points that are more controversial are modified as new data is gathered. ID has not met even a tiny fraction of the burden of predictive evidence that evolutionary theory has.
However, evolution is NOT a fully proven theory...compelling yes, but not 100% established...
No theory in science (outside of pure mathematics) is ever 100%, fully proven; not gravitational theory, not the chemical theory of periodicity; all you can say about any well-established theory, including these or evolution, is that enough evidence has been gathered to give us extreme confidence in the general form of the existing models.
Yet, the education establishment does not treat the subject as theory, but as fact, and they atack ANY descent...even from evolution scientist....
I assume you meant dissent - descent would help evolution, right?! (Kidding around - I'm sure I've made a few spelling errors today myself)
Look, I'd welcome any dissent, if it could actually make it through the same channels and burdens that any other supposed breakthrough in science has to undergo - so far there's just no demonstrated need for a paradigm shift in this area of science; at least not one that's scientifically motivated.