"Thank you Lurch . You have gotten to my point : Evolution ( as taught in modern public school textbooks ) is a religion , not a scientific fact ( as claimed by sarablaze ) ."
"So what you are saying is that even though you claimed to have studied evolution , you have not . I understand . In fact , my religion is not evolution . I even hold my religion in higher regard than to consider using it as an insult . Since you think that calling science a religion is an insult , your religion must be trivial and largely meaningless . But that aside , since you want to lump all of science into the word `` evolution `` so that you can reject it all at once , I 'm just going to use the word science . sarablaze is n't a scientist and , like you , has probably had very little scientific education . But I 'm going to try to explain to you again . A religion is held by faith . That means that it is not supported by actual evidence . On the other hand , science is not accepted by faith since it is built on a process of questioning and testing everything . There is nothing in science that I `` believe `` . Do I believe that the earth orbits the sun ? No . But when presented with the observations of the relative positions of the sun and planets , the most parsimonious explanation is that it is so . I accept that and will accept that until someone can present more evidence and a better explanation . That is true of all science . I do n't believe any of it but accept the explanations that have been tested that account for the observations . In science , by the way , the facts are the observations - not the theories . So the facts of gravity are the observations of things falling to earth and observations of the relative positions of the planets . The current theory of gravity only imperfectly explains those facts - it is part of the general theory of relativity developed by Einstein . In biology , the facts are that we observe living things to change over time . We even have facts from many different fields ( biogeography , genetics , molecular biology , population genetics , morphology , embryology , paleontology , and others ) that point to the fact that living things change over time . The explanations of the mechanics of those changes form the theory of evolution ."
"Evolution ( as taught in modern public school textbooks ) is a religion"
"Since you think that calling science a religion is an insult , your religion must be trivial and largely meaningless . ``"