Quote Originally Posted by rhythmofthecosmos View Post
Am studying evolution in univeristy and while there are many facts in the fossil record i.e Lucy the most famous example showing the progression from apes to australopitheces to early homo to us..

Science cant not fully explain evolution because there is too many "gaps" in the fossil records to fully understand something to call it a fact..

So evolution fundamentally lies a theory...

Game over...
If your standard is the the entire story of evolution be told, it will never be met. It would take a few billion years to tell. You don't have to have evidence of every single little step of something to know that it is a fact. We have enough information to know that evolution is a fact even though there are things we cannot explain, but lack of explanation on a few details is not automatically a complete incapacitation of knowledge.

Suppose you are in a room with one entrance. You see somebody stand outside of the entrance, and then you seen him walking toward the entrance. You close your eyes for a moment but hear him walking into the room. You open your eyes, and he is in the room. Then you know that he walked into the room. You consider it a fact. But that does not mean you can say specifically where he was on his fifth step. Not being able to answer that would not mean you don't know that he walked into the room.

Some scientists supposedly now consider evolution a law, but I am not totally sure on that. They have stricter requirements on what they call principles. They have much stricter standards on what they can call things. I am not a scientist, and I say evolution is a fact, just like we can all call a criminal defendant who is not in a court case we are involved in "guilty" while the judge and jury have to call him "innocent until proven guilty". If evolution is false, that would shock me just as much as finding out that the North Pole does not exist and has been an illusion this whole time.