By the way, I don't think there is such a thing as "origins science." Unless it refers to research into comic book characters. There are disciplines of science (physics and astronomy among them) that study a great many things, and among those is evidence regarding the possible origins of the universe. "Origins science" is another of those terms that is designed to put science in a bad light, ironically by trying to make it sound more like religion.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
