Do You Accept Evolution as a Fact?

[TheLastStarFighter]

potato_hamster said:

TheLastStarFighter said:

There's a lot of poor English on here. Evolution is not a fact, it's a theory. It will always be a theory by definition.

And to "believe" in something is to take it as truth.

So those saying they don't believe in it, it's not a theory it's fact just don't understand the meaning of the words they are using.

The correct answer is simply, yes, I believe in evolution.

A scientific "theory" is not the same as the common vernacular of "theory". It is not an idea. It doesn't require belief to accept it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory

Look, there's a section in there written specifically for people like you :)

So, if you're going to claim people don't understand the meaning of the words they are using, perhaps you should understand them yourself.

Sigh.  You seem confused and you need to read it yourself aparently.  Posters saying "It's not a theory, it's a fact" do not understand the meaning of scientific theory.  And you do not understand the meaning of believe, which is simply again, "taken to be true".

To say "I belive in the evolution theory" is to say "I take evolution, which has been tested over time enough to be scientifically proven, to be true".  To say it doen't take "belief" and "it's fact not theory" is to not understand the meaning of the words.  And that actually includes you, as you don't understand the meaning of believe.  That's natural, as people often use the word incorrectly today as a substitute for believing without facts.  It's from the Bible line where Jesus says "Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet believe".  As a result, people often include the two ideas together these days, but the "believing" part and the "not seen" part are actually not connected.  Believing simply means to take as truth.