when i say many wrong, i mean many wrong, it is a fact that the earth didnt end in 1977 or 2000 as ndamus predicted just as examples, or we wouldnt be having this conversation, you make referance to ndamus not being a biblical prophet, but that doesnt give him any more or less weight than them.
the big one they got wrong is the 10,000 years or younger earth. 6000 or whetever they decide to interpret it as or whether its a metaphor, thats not how a fact works, facts arent open to interpretation
also going back to the original title evolution is a fact, no debate, the only unknowns is the how, evolution is a fact, it happens 100% no doubt, natural selection is a theory, commenly held as the how of evolution backed up by a lot of evidence. which other alternatives dont have.
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The term theory is no longer appropriate (for evolution) except when referring to the various models that attempt to explain how life evolves... it is important to understand that the current questions about how life evolves in no way implies any disagreement over the fact of evolution.
- Neil A. Campbell, Biology 2nd ed., 1990, Benjamin/Cummings, p. 434
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It is time for students of the evolutionary process, especially those who have been misquoted and used by the creationists, to state clearly that evolution is a fact, not theory, and that what is at issue within biology are questions of details of the process and the relative importance of different mechanisms of evolution. It is a fact that the earth with liquid water, is more than 3.6 billion years old. It is a fact that cellular life has been around for at least half of that period and that organized multicellular life is at least 800 million years old. It is a fact that major life forms now on earth were not at all represented in the past. There were no birds or mammals 250 million years ago. It is a fact that major life forms of the past are no longer living. There used to be dinosaurs and Pithecanthropus, and there are none now. It is a fact that all living forms come from previous living forms. Therefore, all present forms of life arose from ancestral forms that were different. Birds arose from nonbirds and humans from nonhumans. No person who pretends to any understanding of the natural world can deny these facts any more than she or he can deny that the earth is round, rotates on its axis, and revolves around the sun.
The controversies about evolution lie in the realm of the relative importance of various forces in molding evolution.
- R. C. Lewontin
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