| "Fact" |
| Observation | Established Hypothesis |
- Facts are empirical data, objective verifiable observations.
| - 'A fact is hypothesis that is so firmly supported by evidence that we assume it is true, and act as if it were true.' Douglas Futyuma.
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| "Theory" |
- A scientific theory is a well supported body of interconnected statements that explains observations and can be used to make testable predictions.
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| Gravity | Evolution |
| Things falling is an observation of the pull of bodies towards each other. | Fruit flies changing generation to generation is an observation of generational organism change. |
| Bodies pulling towards each other is called gravity. | Organisms changing generation to generation is called evolution. |
| Gravity is a fact. | Evolution is a fact. |
| Explanations for the facts of gravity. | Explanations for the facts of evolution. |
| Aristotle and Galileo created explanations of the fact of gravity. These are now obsolete explanations. | Lamarckism, Transmutationism and Orthogenesis were created as explanations of the fact of evolution. These are now discredited explanations. |
| Newton's explanation of gravity is approximately correct but required refinement. | Darwin's explanation of evolution is approximately correct, but required refinement. |
| Einstein's explanation is a refinement of Newton's explanation of gravity. Einstein's explanation is currently the most accepted explanation of the fact of gravity. | The modern evolutionary synthesis is a refinement of Darwin's explanation of evolution, which did not include genes in its explanation. This modern synthesis is currently the most accepted explanation of the fact of evolution. |
| Einstein's explanation of the fact of gravity is called The General theory of relativity. | The explanation of the fact of evolution provided by the modern synthesis is the latest and most widely accepted Theory of Evolution. |
| Gravity is a fact and a theory. | Evolution is a fact and a theory. |
Thou shall believe, otherwise fall from hundred meters, and thou shall prove it.
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