MuscleWizard Wrote:the only reason people don't want to outright declare evolution as scientific fact is because it completely rapes one of the basic tenets of most religions
god created man in his own image
Not really. Even concepts well established for centuries like gravitational forces are still scientific theory. It has more to do with the fact that people misinterpret scientific theory by emphasizing the "theory" part of the term and relate it to how the term is used colloquially. When people think of "theory" the first thing that comes to mind is what's essentially an educated guess based on evidence, when scientific theory is more than that. When scientific theories get submitted for peer reviews, everyone wants to try to tear the theory apart. They want to find something with it that could be wrong, because the whole point is to learn more about a topic; not to just accept something that sounds good and collectively agree that its a sound explanation. Rather than saying "this is the conclusion, how can we get evidence that can be twisted to support it?" its "this is the evidence we have, what conclusions can we draw from it?"
So it's not particularly "fact" as it could technically be debunked with any new evidence that'd say otherwise. There's also the fact that statistically, we as humans have never really been good at knowing things for sure. There are many points in history where things were scientifically agreed on by everyone and have been completely wrong; but everyone from that lifetime died without ever knowing said theories were wrong. But at the same time, that's whats great about scientific advances; the fact that it will adapt and with each error grant us a better understanding of things when looked over again.
Just because its theory doesn't mean that it has a high likely hood of being incorrect. It just means that it has a possibility (even if small) of being incorrect.
That aside, this may be an interesting watch for some of you.
[video=youtube;U0QLjA1GSVI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0QLjA1GSVI[/video]
Humans can be pretty stubborn at times at protecting their stances when presented with facts, but there are reasons behind it after all. Y'know, aside from the general uneasy feeling one would get from learning a fact that completely shakes the foundation they built their lives off from.