You are mistaking evidence of something for a test. In order to move from a hypothesis to a theory, you must be able to reproduce or create experiments. Because evolution is a billions-of-years activity, it can’t be tested. So while it’s likely a fact, we really can’t even call it a theory unless you’ve got a billion years or so to create a test.
The part about evolution being a theory is wrong.
The term they describe is a hypothesis. A theory is actually the highest level of understanding we have to.
We have basic data. Then we have Laws, which describe how that data behaves. Finally we have Theories, that describe WHY the data behaves like that.
Conversely a hypothesis is an idea to be tested. First by logic, then by experimentation. Hypotheses produce data, Theories explain and predict data.
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But it is true that for a hypothesis to become a theory it has to be testable, and evolution isn’t.
It is. It’s a long term e. coli experiment going back decades. Also, you know, genetics and the fossil record.
You are mistaking evidence of something for a test. In order to move from a hypothesis to a theory, you must be able to reproduce or create experiments. Because evolution is a billions-of-years activity, it can’t be tested. So while it’s likely a fact, we really can’t even call it a theory unless you’ve got a billion years or so to create a test.
Dude, look up the E. Coli evolution study. It’s an experiment showing evolution in action.
It is a scientific theory. Just like gravity.
Very interesting. Got way too much into the weeds for me to follow all the way through, but point taken.