(June 10, 2015 at 9:10 am)abaris Wrote:(June 10, 2015 at 9:08 am)SteveII Wrote: I was using theory in the casual way. If you stick scientific in front of it, I guess only parts of evolution are scientific theories (those things we can test and observe).
Yeah, but here's the thing. Evolution is a scientific theory. So it kind of goes with the job description to stick scientific in front of it.
And that is the issue. If you say that all of the various theories of evolution are scientific theories, that is grossly overstating our knowledge of such things and is just plain untrue and misleading.
