12-05-2011, 02:14 PM
(12-05-2011, 01:41 PM)ZEROSPHERES Wrote: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html
"theory" often means "imperfect fact"--part of a hierarchy of confidence running downhill from fact to theory to hypothesis to guess."
I place evolutionary theory at the top of that hill as imperfect fact.
I see the god embraced by organized religion to rubber stamp their preducial condemnation of others at the bottom of the hill and say at best it is a 'guess', and sometimes an outright fabrication by the church to control others for personal gain.
Like the article you linked says - in "American vernacular" theory can mean imperfect fact. However, a scientific theory is a way to explain facts. I was not talking about general vernacular which is not scientific.

