[dsc]

“I have not the slightest idea what you mean.”

Well, if there is evidence and reasoned argument to support a belief, then what is the difference between a belief and a theory.

[3AngelaD]

There is no way to experimentally verify a belief. If it were verifiable, it would be a fact, such as gravity, not a belief, regardless of evidence and reasoned argument. A theory incorporates one or more strands of an inquiry, or hypotheses if you will, based on the scientific method, into a coherent whole that is, in turn, itself subject to the scientific method. Many people misunderstand the scientific method, and in particular, the theory of evolution. It is just that: a theory. It is not a belief, nor is it a fact. It is simply the most rational, empirical explanation that science has devised, so far, to explain what has been observed, recorded and measured in experiments that can be reproduced, with the same results, by other researchers. There may be other, better explanations for phenomena that science has observed and for which science has devised the theory of evolution to describe. If so those alternative explanations would be subject to the rigor of the scientific method. The Russian Lysenko’s theories of environmentally acquired inheritance, offering an alternative explanation, are a case in point, but they were disproved. I personally do not find the theory of evolution to be in conflict with the Biblical account of Creation. I am taken aback, however, when people don't know the difference.