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About half of the people who reject the materialist [[Theory of Evolution]] accept the fossil evidence of "gradual appearance" while rejecting mainstream biology's explanation that [[natural selection]] and unguided forces like [[mutation]] and [[copying errors]] is the cause.

About half of the people who reject the materialist [[Theory of Evolution]] accept the fossil evidence of "gradual appearance" while rejecting mainstream biology's explanation that [[natural selection]] and unguided forces like [[mutation]] and [[copying errors]] is the cause.

Facts are observations, theories are models which explain those observations.  Theories can never be facts, because that implies that the model itself is an observation.

Facts are observations, theories are models which explain those observations.  Theories can never be facts, because that implies that the model itself is an observation.  However, theories may often become so well-accepted and well-proven that they rise to a level at which scientists are comfortable calling them "facts" - an example is the [[theory of relativity]], or the theory of [[double slit experiment|particle/wave duality]].

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[[Category:Origins debate]]

[[Category:Origins debate]]