A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of
facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested
or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about
natural phenomena.
Note: Evolution is not repeatable, hence the part on repeatedly
tested is not true, its not tested, its repeatedly deduced.
repeatedly tested means, you can take one set of premise, to
another lab, independantly conduct the test, and come out with the
same result.
THE KEY WORD IS SCIENTIFIC SENSE. The word "theory" can mean the
other common layman sense but for usage in SCIENTIFIC FIELD, it
meant the above. The definition of debate is the meaning of the
word in SCIENTIFIC FIELD.
Please for goodness sake read the wiki definition of "theory"
first.
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REDICTIONS about natural phenomena. I would not call
a prediction a fact
predicting
To state, tell about, or make known in advance, especially on the
basis of special knowledge
THEORY can make PREDICTION, and in the grammatical sense it is
about to KNOW IN ADVANCE FACTS THAT IS GONNA OCCUR due to basis of
special knowledge (theory of evolution). If theory does not hold
water, u cannot use it for prediction. THEORIES can TELL FACTS EVEN
BEFORE IT OCCURS. Can creationism even remotely do tat ? NO.
It is not stalemate, it is checkmate.
can evolution be used to make prediction? predict what?
evolution is used by certain people in the scientific community to
explain the past, not predict the future. Past means happens
already. evolution cannot predict what is going to happen, in fact
it does not even explain how the past happens, it just says, it
happened.
based on your explaination, are you saying evolution is not even a
theory?
since theory can be use to make prediction, and evolution
cannot.
