A year or so ago CSPAN2 had a Book TV program by a photo guy who went through the history of photographic faking. Such fakery started almost as soon as photography did and if will done was difficult to detect. Experts could do it quite well although we only know for sure that they could detect those that they could detect. We have no idea how much fakery went undetected. Ergo, simply showing photgraphs of the purported US Civil war doesn’t prove anything. And I read a real exciting book about the history and exploits of one Peter Blood which was just as detailed as anything written about the supposed Civil War. But the book Captain Blood is fiction, I think, and so could be all those stories about the Civil War.
It seems to me that the evidence for evolutionary processes acting throughout time is every bit as good as the evidence for the Civil War.
PS, I’m quite convinced in the reality of the Civil War.
CurtC
Well I was going to mention about e=mc² but it seems that Epimetheus did a fine job explaining it. Anyway, my point being, how could Hiroshima and Nagasaki have undergone such incredible devastation from one bomb each? After all, e=mc² is “just a theory”.
“You know how, every winter, there are news articles about some new strain of flu that’s resistant to drugs and people have to be careful? That’s evolution in action.”
*What people mean when they say something is only a theory is that something is only a hypothesis. A hypothesis is an idea or opinion that can be tested but has not yet been tested or, if tested, could not be substantiated.
A theory is the result of testing a hypothesis and finding the hypothesis was substantiated and that the results of those tests can be duplicated.
Because science is dependent upon knowledge available at the time of testing, a new theory may be required to accomodate new information. Developing scientific theory is a “best fit” proceedure.