[pby]

No you don't have to be an athiest to believe in evolution. I agree (and I never said that)...but it does take some level of disdain for Christianity to post a Darwin fish eating what is known to be a Christian symbol. Athiests and naturalists usually enjoy that type of thing.

And when did evolution move from theory to fact?

[narby]

And when did evolution move from theory to fact?

Now pby, you know the answer to that. You've been around these threads long enough.

A scientific "theory" is a description of how a process operates. Like "electrical theory". Or "Music theory", like the class my daughter takes in college.

But electricity and music are facts too.

The "theory of evolution" describes the process. But the FACT that evolution happens is a fact.

You knew that. How come you're playing dumb?

[Vaquero]

that "when did evolution move from a theory to fact" line, is the same old hackneed stuff that creationists pull out of there sock drawer everytime this subject comes up. It is fact. proven fact. The only thing about it that resembles a theory is some of minutae and fine detail which is irrelevant to the proof of evolution.