[Dimensio]

You don't say whether these repeated tests need to have proven anything.

What would you expect to be proven? Theories in science are never proven.

Regarding evolution, they certainly haven't proven the creation of any new species.

You are incorrect here.

So in order to go from hypothesis to theory, you need a wide acceptance of scientists, not actual proof.

Nothing in science is proven. Theories are either found to be consistent with all observations or falsified through contradictory observations.

So there's a political element?

Not as such. More of a consensus based upon actual testing.

[GOPPachyderm]

I admit I only read a part of the referenced link, but I thought it humorous when they were trying to show speciation by referencing blue gills in Wisconsin. As far as I know, the blue gills they examined in the beautiful clear water lakes of Wisconsin were all still fish.

There may be better arguments at the site, but this one hit my funny bone.