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Originally Posted by passingbat
It can not be a fact if a group of scientists disagree with it. It's that simple. Yours may be the predominant view among scientists, but predominance does not make it a fact. You choose to believe the predominant view, therefore you have faith in that view and there is nothing wrong with that.
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Evolution is a scientific theory which means that the evidence for it has been tested and proven many times.
The case for evolution is therefore an undeniable fact, but what we believe evolution to be can change. to quote Jaime Tanner, a professor of biology at Marlboro College.
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Theories may change, or the way that they are interpreted may change, but the facts themselves don’t change. Theories are like baskets in which scientists keep facts and observations that they find. The shape of that basket may change as the scientists learn more and include more facts. "For example, we have ample evidence of traits in populations becoming more or less common over time (evolution), so evolution is a fact but the overarching theories about evolution, the way that we think all of the facts go together might change as new observations of evolution are made
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