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<blockquote data-quote="Johnny Drama" data-source="post: 5829841" data-attributes="member: 554719"><p>Show me where Im using improper terms. While you look here are a few showing Im not.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html" target="_blank">http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html</a></p><p></p><p><em>Well evolution </em><em>is</em><em> 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.</em></p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact</a></p><p></p><p><em>The potentially confusing statement that "</em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#Evolution" target="_blank"><em><strong>evolution</strong></em></a><em><strong> is both a </strong></em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#Theory" target="_blank"><em><strong>theory</strong></em></a><em><strong> and a </strong></em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#Fact" target="_blank"><em><strong>fact</strong></em></a><em>" is often seen in biological literature.</em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#cite_note-Moran-0" target="_blank"><em>[1]</em></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#cite_note-gouldfact-1" target="_blank"><em>[2]</em></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#cite_note-Muller-2" target="_blank"><em>[3]</em></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#cite_note-Campbell-3" target="_blank"><em>[4]</em></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#cite_note-Dobzhansky-4" target="_blank"><em>[5]</em></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#cite_note-Campbell-3" target="_blank"><em>[4]</em></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#cite_note-Lenski-5" target="_blank"><em>[6]</em></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#cite_note-Mayr-6" target="_blank"><em>[7]</em></a><em> This statement arises because </em><em>evolution</em><em> is used in two ways. First, the "fact of evolution" refers to the changes in populations of biological organisms over time, which are known to have occurred through </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observation#Observations_in_science" target="_blank"><em>scientific observations</em></a><em> and </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment" target="_blank"><em>experimentations</em></a><em>. Second, the "theory of evolution" refers to the </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_evolutionary_synthesis" target="_blank"><em>modern evolutionary synthesis</em></a><em>, which is the current scientific explanation of how these changes occur. Misuse and misunderstanding of how these terms are applied to evolution have been used to construct arguments disputing the validity of evolution.</em></p><p></p><p><a href="http://atheism.about.com/od/evolutionexplained/a/fact_theory.htm" target="_blank">http://atheism.about.com/od/evolutionexplained/a/fact_theory.htm</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/lenski.html" target="_blank">http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/lenski.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Johnny Drama, post: 5829841, member: 554719"] Show me where Im using improper terms. While you look here are a few showing Im not. [URL="http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html"]http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html[/URL] [I]Well evolution [/I][I]is[/I][I] 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.[/I] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact[/URL] [I]The potentially confusing statement that "[/I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#Evolution"][I][B]evolution[/B][/I][/URL][I][B] is both a [/B][/I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#Theory"][I][B]theory[/B][/I][/URL][I][B] and a [/B][/I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#Fact"][I][B]fact[/B][/I][/URL][I]" is often seen in biological literature.[/I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#cite_note-Moran-0"][I][1][/I][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#cite_note-gouldfact-1"][I][2][/I][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#cite_note-Muller-2"][I][3][/I][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#cite_note-Campbell-3"][I][4][/I][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#cite_note-Dobzhansky-4"][I][5][/I][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#cite_note-Campbell-3"][I][4][/I][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#cite_note-Lenski-5"][I][6][/I][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact#cite_note-Mayr-6"][I][7][/I][/URL][I] This statement arises because [/I][I]evolution[/I][I] is used in two ways. First, the "fact of evolution" refers to the changes in populations of biological organisms over time, which are known to have occurred through [/I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observation#Observations_in_science"][I]scientific observations[/I][/URL][I] and [/I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment"][I]experimentations[/I][/URL][I]. Second, the "theory of evolution" refers to the [/I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_evolutionary_synthesis"][I]modern evolutionary synthesis[/I][/URL][I], which is the current scientific explanation of how these changes occur. Misuse and misunderstanding of how these terms are applied to evolution have been used to construct arguments disputing the validity of evolution.[/I] [URL="http://atheism.about.com/od/evolutionexplained/a/fact_theory.htm"]http://atheism.about.com/od/evolutionexplained/a/fact_theory.htm[/URL] [URL="http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/lenski.html"]http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/lenski.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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