Debate: Has evolution been scientifically proved?
Side: It has not

"Einstein’s “Blunder” is Right, After All; Journal of Young Scientist © 2007 Falishia Sloan, Science Journalist"A recent article explaining how something that Einstien changed in his original theory of relativity (because he thought the original calculation he made couldn't be true) turned out to be true. This is relevant now. Nothing new has occured with the fact of evolution. It's still a fact and has been for a long time now."We are constantly bombarded with Einstein was right articles. I entered exactly that phrase and got 507,000 hits."So what? I entered "evolution is right" and got 144,000,000 hits."Mainstream science can make a lot of money on this subject and has made a lot of money on this subject. You don't think they would make a big deal about a definitive evolution 'smoking gun'?"What money is there to be made by evolution being a fact? The money is understanding HOW evolution works and being able to take advantage of this (which, by the way, we already do with the domestication of animals)."Just look at how much attention is paid to the numerous specimens vying for 'missing link' status since Lucy's discovery."There are many many transitional fossils:Dinosaurs to Birds: Yixianosaurus -> Pedopenna -> Archaeopteryx -> Confuciusornis -> IchthyornisApes to Humans: Pierolapithecus catalaunicus -> Ardipithecus -> Australopithecus -> Homo rudolfensis -> Homo habilis -> Homo habilisAmphibians to Reptiles: Proterogyrinus -> Limnoscelis -> Tseajaia -> Solenodonsaurus -> Hylonomus -> Paleothyris"You have it backwards. Natural selection is a fact...your pepper moth article proves that. Hell the current size of an NFL lineman probably proves that. The theory of Evolution is not a fact."It is this sentence here that shows your misunderstandings the best. Evolution is what happens. Natural selection is HOW it happens. Evolution, as I've said so many times, is an observed fact. Science isn't in some kind of struggle with this as you are making out. Science knows this is a fact and that is that: "Since Darwin's time, massive additional evidence has accumulated supporting the fact of evolution--that all living organisms present on earth today have arisen from earlier forms in the course of earth's long history. Indeed, all of modern biology is an affirmation of this relatedness of the many species of living things and of their gradual divergence from one another over the course of time. Since the publication of The Origin of Species, the important question, scientifically speaking, about evolution has not been whether it has taken place. That is no longer an issue among the vast majority of modern biologists. Today, the central and still fascinating questions for biologists concern the mechanisms by which evolution occurs." - Helena Curtis and N. Sue Barnes, Biology 5th ed. 1989, Worth Publishers, p. 972"Today, nearly all biologists acknowledge that evolution is a fact. The term theory is no longer appropriate except when referring to the various models that attempt to explain how life evolves... it is important to understand that the current questions about how life evolves in no way implies any disagreement over the fact of evolution." - Neil A. Campbell, Biology 2nd ed., 1990, Benjamin/Cummings, p. 434"Let me try to make crystal clear what is established beyond reasonable doubt, and what needs further study, about evolution. Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can be doubted only by those who are ignorant of the evidence or are resistant to evidence, owing to emotional blocks or to plain bigotry. By contrast, the mechanisms that bring evolution about certainly need study and clarification. There are no alternatives to evolution as history that can withstand critical examination. Yet we are constantly learning new and important facts about evolutionary mechanisms." - Theodosius Dobzhansky "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution", American Biology Teacher vol. 35 (March 1973) reprinted in Evolution versus Creationism, J. Peter Zetterberg ed., ORYX Press, Phoenix AZ 1983"Evolutionists have been very clear about this distinction of fact and theory from the very beginning, if only because we have always acknowledged how far we are from completely understanding the mechanisms (theory) by which evolution (fact) occurred. Darwin continually emphasized the difference between his two great and separate accomplishments: establishing the fact of evolution, and proposing a theory--natural selection--to explain the mechanism of evolution." - Stephen J. Gould, " Evolution as Fact and Theory"; Discover, May 1981I'm afraid, rocknwow, that It's most definately you who has it backwards."Xaeon...don't mess with what I was saying...that's not nice. I stated earlier in this debate I believe in evolution."I'm well aware that you did. I wasn't implying that your religious views are clouding your judgement. I believe that to be simply that you haven't researched it enough. What I'm saying is that you will have a very very hard time trying to find a biological scientist (who doesn't believe in a religion that opposes the scientific view - although, even the roman catholic church has pretty much accepted that evolution exists, but that it was started by God; though, let's not get into that argument) who doesn't believe that evolution is a fact. Remember, once again, I'm talking about evolution here, not natural selection. You will find many who may refute natural selection, but NOT evolution.