A SCIENTIFIC THEORY is based upon facts, laws and hypothesises, is testable and falsifiable, has no evidence that can't be worked into the theory (has never been demonstrated to be false) and due to the overwhelming amount of evidence in support is considered the best hypothesis (all theories are hypothesis but not all hypothesises are theories) available. It is however not considered proven as proof is considered impossible in science. Science is based upon probability not absolute certainty. A SCIENTIFIC FACT is a verified observation. A SCIENTIFIC LAW is a simple statement, quite often mathematical, that describes a scientific fact. A SCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESIS is an attempted explanation of a phenomenon. A scientific theory is the top of the pyramid. There is nothing in science above a theory. On the other hand a scientific fact sits at the bottom. Theories > facts Creationists/IDists, please try and keep this in your head for longer than 5 minutes this time.
Well, I have little hope that Creationists/IDists will remember since their core belief is that willful ignorance of all things science is a worthy goal (won't stop them talking about science and pretending that all their ideas are the most scientific ever!) but some people who are just ignorant (as in don't know) may go, "Oh, that's what it means. Gee, those Creationists/IDists sure don't know wtf they're on about, do they?"
But evolution is just a THEORY. Like how gravity is a THEORY. But one of them is less of a THEORY than the other because it contradicts what my sheep herders book says.
I have a hypothesis. Creationists kept Darwin, out of US schools, until 1958, when the Russians launched Sputnik. Can somebody design an intelligent Christian, to understand an explanation, how the Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church meddled with our evolution, so western intelligence is limited, and ALL our media is deeply distorted, by ancient media, based on rudimentary media, from ancient proto-Zionists, which was crafted, amended, and used, to unify the Roman Empire, in the C.E.?
