First, colloquial definitions of the word 'theory' are used to denigrate the place of evolution in the world of scientific knowledge. In science, an idea can be a theory and a fact at the same time.
A scientific gentleman, in a recent conversation, broached to us a theory of taste and smell ... even though aided by the most powerful instruments science has been able to devise or art to ...
support for the scientific theory of evolution has not supplanted their religious belief. And throughout the modern Judeo-Christian tradition, leaders have asserted that evolutionary science ...