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[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 08:51, 15 March 2008 (EDT)
[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 08:51, 15 March 2008 (EDT)
:I don't object to your moving it back, I was just thinking that "theory" is a good word for any idea that explains something, while "observation" generally refers to a things that we notice.
:In ecology, we notice that populations of animals and plants tend to change; that is an observation. The [[theory]] is that a type of organism will tend to increase its population wherever it finds a suitable environment, limited only by such factors as food and predators.
:I prefer to make as strong a distinction as possible between the '''observed facts''' and the '''theories than explain them'''. It is liberals and other dishonest parties who want to blur this distinction altogether. The Darwinist motto is, "Evolution is a fact". How do they get away with that? --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 17:14, 15 March 2008 (EDT)