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Originally Posted by FunkMachine
Just to add, in scientific terms a theory attempts to explain a fact. Sometimes the theory explains the fact exactly, sometimes it doesn't.
Evolution is a fact, regardless of individual opinion in favour or against, just as gravity is a fact regardless of who believes in it or not.
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Absolutely NOT
In scientific terms a theory attempts to observed events by a proposed construct that has dependent conditional assumptions
A Scientific fact is a theory in which the assumed dependent conditions have been proven to be true.
Since you brought up gravity I will use that to explain this to you.
For hundreds of years scientist had the theory gravity was not a constant but dependent on the mass of the object dropped. This was because people were able to observe that when you dropped a cannon ball and a feather at the same time the cannon ball hit the ground first.
People who believed this theory assumed that air resistance was so negligible that it would not have any effect on gravity. They used observed events like the fact that you could move thru the air without feeling resistance. The problem was that assumption was wrong, and it wasn't until someone found a way to remove air resistance (by creating a vacuum) and having the feather hit the bottom at the same time as the heavy object that people came up with another theory that gravity was a constant force.
This unlike the original theory of gravity did not have an dependent assumptions and that is why it is a law of physics.
That is why evolution is a theory because NO ONE has proven the assumption to be true.