(August 19, 2016 at 2:57 pm)SteveII Wrote: I didn't use the term 'Theory of Evolution' to argue that it was just a theory. The word 'theory' has multiple meanings. Since I used the words 'fact' and 'theory' in the same sentence, I thought my meaning would be clear. I apologize for the confusion and resulting tangent.
Yeah, but it has only one meaning in science, viz an explanatory framework for a phenomenon or group of phenomena developed by scientists, which agrees with the known facts about the phenomena it is trying to explain, has been empirically tested, the tests themselves being independently verifiable and repeatable, has explanatory and predictive power (either explaining future events, or giving predictions of what we should expect in gaps of current knowledge) which are testable and accurate, and is falsifiable (i.e. that the theory is based well enough of observations of reality that we can devise tests to try and prove it false).
Your definition of theory has no place in science, and your use of your definition is simply a scientific version of dog whistle politics.
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