Question for our resident creationist(s)

[ronedee]

Yes. It is. I already know what. We all already know that. I also know that you're about to try to say "it's only a theory" as if the word theory somehow means it's not true. To quote the Oxford Dictionary:

a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.

Basically, "only a theory" is the same as saying "only a fact."


*sighs, pinches bridge of nose* See, this is why you should've spent less time at the altar, and more time paying attention in science class... What you basically just said to me (and I get that you really don't know this) was "The frustration of trying to prove a point based on the proven explanation of something proven to happen is the point I'm trying to make." In other words, you are finally speaking a bit of fact: Yes it IS very frustrating trying to explain how something is fact by using explanations that have since proven it's a fact to someone who clearly doesn't know the meaning of FACT!


THAT'S WHAT A THEORY DOES!!


Bolding is mine: It never will be, as stated before. I don't need to prove my theory; it's already been rigorously proven by hundreds if not thousands of controlled experiments, studies, observations, and tests to prove it over and over again. And yes, it DOES sound familiar; I hear it from the mouth of every scientifically illiterate person I come across, and never from the mouth of anyone who is educated to any basic extent in scientific procedure.

And maybe you should spend less time pinching your nose, and more time figuring out what a "theory" actually "isn't"...

Antonyms (opposite) for theory:

* fact
* information
* reality

* truth
* calculation
* knowledge
* measurement

* proof
* certainty

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." Albert Einstein

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