Wow. Regurgitated ignorance at it's finest. A Theory is the highest level something can be. A claim is made, it gets tested and retested over and over, peer reviewed, makes predictions and becomes a theory. Check out
www.notjustatheory.com and take the couple of minutes needed to read the home page. It's an easy and light read with a pretty good explanation of what a theory is.
Evolution is a fact. There are mountains of evidence to look through. I understand it is easier to take the word of others that believe everything you do without question and then repeat it to others, but I like to fact check and make sure my search for truth is logical and fair.
Well, I'm sorry scotty, it's not a fact. It's still a theory, and a theory isn't fact. That's why it's called a theory. No one has been able to effectively prove it as of yet, which is why it's called a theory. That is by definition, what a theory is. It's a set of ideas that people collect through data and analysis that "attempts" to explain a phenomenon. The things you're mentioning regarding evolution have been brought up, and they are things people use to try and prove it, but as I said, there are too many variables that have kept it from being 100% fact as of right now. Hence the reason it's still called the "theory of evolution", because it's not proven to be a fact yet. Will it be one day? It's
my belief, that yes. Science will "prove" it to be a fact within our generation, but I won't believe that judgement.
There are too many things regarding evolution that either go against the grain of what's believed to be true, things that have been lied about, left out and omitted from data sets to skew results in the favor of the theory, or simply strongly exaggerated to make their case. There's too many things that throw up red flags for me to accept it, even if a wildly popular and renown scientist comes along and says it's a fact one day. But, that's yet to happen, because it's still a theory, and is yet to be proven, hence the term theory.
Gravity isn't a theory, it's a fact, or technically a law. Right? Well, gravity IS explained, in the
theory of relativity. Gravity is a law, but the "theory" of relativity, is not. It's simply a thought or an idea used to explain something that we don't know that much about yet. Sometimes that theory is proven, and it's no longer called a theory. Such as gravity. Instead of calling it the theory of gravity as it once was, it's the law of gravity. Some scientific circles call it a theory still, but that's only some circles.
Evolution is a theory because it's got too many things preventing it from being predicted, understood, and just plain flat out proven. The very idea of it implies that the animal that didn't evolve, is weaker than the version of itself that did (generally). Sometimes they imply that the evolution would make the creature weaker at times, until they evolve further, or that chain of evolutionary changes dies out and begins anew with another specimen. My point is, if eventually, a species evolves into a stronger, better version, then the remaining version of that animal, would cease to exist. If an entire species changed for the better, the entire species should change, not split off into two or several different species. If we came from monkeys, there should no longer be monkeys, otherwise how could you prove that we came from monkeys? Basically every single animal has similar bone structure, so the idea that we have similar structures doesn't make much sense. There's more into this whole evolution from monkey idea that we could get into that cause me to disbelieve in the whole thing as well, but that's another topic for another time. An entirely different can of worms.
