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Originally Posted by willravel
"Finished Theory" is a contradiction in terms. Evolution isn't law and fact yet.
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By any informal use of the word "fact" evolution as a process is a fact. Both microevolution and macroevolution have been directly observed and verified and replicated so many times that nobody disputes the fact that they exist and occur and always have throughout the history of life.
So you could say that evolution is both theory and fact. It is a set of observations and associated theoretical propositions so overwhelmingly supported that it is treated as fact. It is just as factual as gravitation, which is also a set of overwhelmingly supported theoretical propositions, treated as fact.
Anybody interested in the details can consult any recent college biology textbook.