highwaystar101 said:
A scientific theory is pretty much the highest accolade a scientific idea can reach. To say something is a theory in science it has to have a sufficient amount of evidence to back it up, facts have to be drawn from the evidence, and from the facts the best explanation is devised. Basically a Scientific theory is the explanation of a series of related facts. And as more evidence is found the theory is greater refined, so it is ever improving too. If it were merely poorly founded speculation, then it would be a hypothesis. But it's not, a theory is substantiated by evidence and fact. Evolution is substantiated by a series of facts drawn from, quite frankly, an overwhelming amount of evidence. It has been proven. If you were to devise a new theory which deviated from evolution, you would have to account for the masses of evidence and the facts supporting evolution. And I can assure you that whatever this hypothetical new theory is, it would have to bare great commonality with the current model of evolution (things wont stop evolving tomorrow). ... Allow me to use a brief analogy. People once thought the Earth was flat, this was an unfounded hypothesis. After some clever observations by the ancient Greeks, they hypothesised that the Earth was round. Because the round Earth theory had evidence and facts to back it up, the flat Earth hypothesis was dropped. But it didn't stop there. We knew the Earth was round, but later observations in the 18th century allowed us to conclude that it was actually an oblate spheroid. We had refined the theory to give a more defined answer based on facts. We can now measure the shape of the Earth to a high and ever improving degree. Tomorrow the Earth will not go from being a sphere to being flat. And if we hypothesise about a new shape of the Earth, we will have to account for the evidence showing it is round. ... Also, evidence for Creationism? Go onto Google scholar and look at some research papers written on evidence for Evolution and some research papers written on evidence for Creationism. You will notice the difference straight away. Creationism has barely any (if any?) observable evidence, evolution has tonnes. |
I would just like to add to that we also have the universal theory of gravition, and the theory of general relativity. They are still both theories because there may be certain circumstances where the predications they make fail to hold but it's not like someone is all of a sudden going disprove the theory of gravitation and we are all going to drift off into space.
