Regular Session 1996, State of Ohio. The bill, which died in committee, is an example of bills that are now introduced with regularity in state governments throughout the United States. Although worded differently, with more or fewer provisions, these bills, if passed, would legislate that evolution not be taught as fact in the states' public school systems. Before that question can be answered, it must be established what fact and theory are. It is very difficult to define exactly what a fact is.
Many popular dictionaries try very hard to define a fact, and most still get it wrong.
A major earthquake struck Los Angeles on April 7, 1962. A is 5 feet long. Dinosaur femur B is 6 feet long. Facts merely tell us what is. They do not tell us why that fact is, what the fact means , or how the fact came to be.