"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message
"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Schizoid Man" wrote in message
Every six months or so another evolution controversy emerges from
Georgia.
Last year, the education chief has proposed replacing the word
'evolution' with the laughable phrase 'changes over time' in school
textbooks.
So, you're saying that the phrase "changes over time" misrepresents
the word evolution?
**Evolution describes the process nicely. Anything else is just a
fairy tale and does not belong as part of any education system.
No answer to the question that was asked.
This year, it's the Cobb County 'Evolution is a theory' stickers.
So, you're saying that evolution is not a theory while newtonian
physics is a theory?
**Evolution is a fact, not a theory.
Trevor, facts and theories are not necessarily mutually exclusive. They tend
to be in some sense orthogonal. IOW, the theory gives some idea of how or
why something happens, while facts relate to specific things that happened
in the past.
Gravity is a theory relating to forces between objects. It is a relevant
fact that the last object I released some distance above the floor, shortly
fell to the floor.
Changes over time would be an example of fact(s), while Evolution is a
theory that explains changes over time. Strictly speaking, Evolution will
never be itself a fact. It will always be a theory. Now it can be factual,
but that is still not the same as being a fact.
Darwin proposed the Theory of
Natural Selection, to explain the FACT of evolution.
No, Evolution will always be a theory. Observable changes over time can be
facts.
Newtonian Physics was proven incorrect by Einsteinian Physics.
No, it was modified by Einsteinian physics. When the appropriate velocities
are zero, einsteinian theories and Newtonian theories give the identical
same results.
Since Evolution, Einsteinian physics, and Newtonian Physics are all
scientific theories, they are and always will be provisional. That means
that at any time, they may be modified by some other finding of Science.