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DARWIN'S THEORY: IS EVOLUTION A THEORY OR A FACT?

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. ...Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

— JIMMY SWAGGART, American fundamentalist preacher

Science admits and encourages criticism and testing, making it essentially self-correcting. Scientists do not consider anything as absolutely true for all time. Religionists and political ideologues do.

Scientists consider well-supported hypotheses, usually called theories, to be as factual as you can get without resorting to religion-like proclamations of absolute truth. Newton’s theory of gravitation applies on a scale humans can relate to, but Einstein’s theory applies on a cosmic scale. As for evolution, the evidence for its reality is massive. James D. Watson, American biologist, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, and Nobel prize winner, puts it this way:

Today, evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

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