Your last sentence makes no sense to me.

Do all followers of "God" call his existence a theory...?

Evolution is a theory. The Big Bang is a theory.
A theory is an unproven fact, basically.

This post was edited by kegman909650 on Dec 14 2008 07:23pm

Last I checked, gravity was not a theory.

Yeah, you're right. I wasn't thinking.

It's all good.

Fun small discussion, though.

I must be off to other threads!

Well, there is both a theory of gravity and a law of gravity, where the theory tries to explain the phenomenon and the law is the physical representation of it.

That's what I meant by theory. Thanks for saving me some of the embarassment.

good answer. more people in the world need to think like this, the world would be a better place

but anyway, i don't think this section is for topics about religion

gravity is both a law and a theory

its effect is a law, why it happens is a theory

edit: fuck, i just saw wiggum's post



ugh. a theory is a framework of reality/ a verifiable hypothesis which is supported by evidence and is also subjected to scientific scrutiny. theory and fact aren't mutually exclusive. Evolution is a fact. Bacteria do it, viruses do it, there is a fossil record which supports it, I don't think there's any reason to not treat it as such.

This post was edited by Abstraction on Dec 14 2008 09:38pm

Our explanation for how the mechanisms of evolution happen is the theory. Organisms changing over time is a fact... but that is pretty much just reiterating the obvious (well I guess except to the YEC).

This post was edited by LouisLeGros on Dec 14 2008 10:59pm