(July 25, 2014 at 4:32 am)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: It's a theory that explains a fact.
This bothered my ear too. Theories account for facts. Evolution accounts for a bushel of facts far better than any alternative theory. To my mind a fact is something you could record as an observation. It has nothing to do with my confidence in the theory. I am totally down with evolution.