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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.

**No need. The word: 'Evolution' more completely describes the changes to
life.


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.

**Correct. Evolution has occured. Evolution is a fact. Darwin proposed
'Natural Selection' to explain the fact of evolution. Several other theories
have also been presented to supplement Darwin's orginal theories. Some make
sense, but it is important to recall that the essence of what Darwin
published is now known to be correct.


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.

**Nope. Gravity is a fact. How gravity warps space/time is part of the
theory relating to how gravity operates.


Changes over time would be an example of fact(s), while Evolution is a
theory that explains changes over time.

**No. Evolution is a fact. All of the casuitive factors surrounding
evolution have yet to be determined.

Strictly speaking, Evolution will
never be itself a fact.

**No. Evolution has occured. Evolution is a fact. All of the causitive
factors of evolution have yet to be determined.

It will always be a theory. Now it can be factual,
but that is still not the same as being a fact.

**When this planet was formed, 4.5 Billion years ago, there was no life. 3
Billion years ago, the earliest forms of life appeared. Sometime, between
then and now, humans appeared. We MUST have evolved from somewhere.
Therefore, evolution occured.


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.

**Those facts are described as 'Evolution'.


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.

**Given that nothing in this universe is at rest, Newton got it wrong.


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.

**I agree that Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection, is still a theory. Much
has been shown to be correct, but some still remains to be proved.
Evolution, however, continues. Evolution is a fact.


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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au