justinian said:
Ok I did. In the vernacular, "theory" can refer to guesswork, a simple conjecture, an opinion, or a speculation that does not have to be based on facts and need not be framed for making testable predictions. Scientific theories also contain speculation at first as scientists necessarily reach past the threshold of current knowledge, but they develop heuristically or through axillary claims as observations from experiments are explained and cause-effect relations are understood. Theories are constructs having both explanatory and predictive capacities that are built on inferential sets of logic (consilience of inductions,abductions, and deductions), models, and syllogistic schemes or laws that can be falsified through well designed experiments. In this way, theories that survive and develop through critical testing, such as Charles Darwin's theories on evolution, become richly informative as they explain cause-effect relations among many observable phenomena. Thanks, I get it. There is scientific fact, scientific theory and then there is absolute truth. Evolution has reached scientific fact but not absolute truth. |
You just made up the term absolute truth to try and downplay what the theory of evolution by natural selection is.
I'll draw you a fast map, use it well:
Evolution = observable fact
Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection = Scientific theory that best explains the observed fact of evolution.
Comparison------ When you jump, something seems to pull you back to earth.
Observed fact: objects are seen to attract themselves to other bodies. Somehow, the bigger the mass of said body, the stronger this attracting force becomes.
Scientific Theory : Theory of Gravity seems to be the one who most accurately describes the fact mentioned before.
I honestly hope it helped you at least to not spread false information. But somehow i remain skeptic on my success
