Assertion: evolution | /r/HasProperty | fact
Facets:
value: as the heat of the sun
type: OTHER
value: in retort to the claim
type: OTHER
value: anyhow
type: DEGREE
value: as anything
type: DEGREE
value: in this sense
type: OTHER
value: in this context
type: OTHER
value: for scientists
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: For scientists, evolution is a fact.
text: Kenneth R. Miller writes, "evolution is as much a fact as anything we know in science.
text: Evolution, in this context, is both a fact and a theory.
text: The demand that an evolutionary process create order, or at least that there be a change from one order to a different order, shows clearly that evolution, in this sense, is neither a fact nor a theory, but a way of organizing knowledge.
text: Now in this use of the term fact, the only proper one, evolution is a fact.
text: Other commentators – focusing on the changes in species over generations and in some cases common ancestry – have stressed, in order to emphasize the weight of supporting evidence, that evolution is a fact, arguing that the use of the term "theory" is not useful:
text: Evolution is a fact.
text: Neil Campbell wrote in his 1990 biology textbook, "Today, nearly all biologists acknowledge that evolution is a fact.
text: Dr William C. Robertson writing for National Science Teachers Association writes, "I have heard too many scientists claim that evolution is a fact, often in retort to the claim that it is just a theory.
text: Evolutionists commonly insist, however, that evolution is a fact anyhow, and that the conflict is resolved by noting that the earth is an "open system," with the incoming energy from the sun able to sustain evolution throughout the geological ages in spite of the natural tendency of all systems to deteriorate toward disorganization.
text: Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.