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carl_the_sniper wrote: Saying that evolution is true =/= saying that humans came from monkeys. Evolution IS a fact.

What are you basing that on? Hundreds of thousands of fossils and collected evidence or some book magically dictated by an unseen, but omnipotent being?

Yep.  Just like "The Secret" is a theory, Newtonian physics is a (set of) theory, the 9/11 conspiracy is a theory, and general relativity is a theory.

Not all theories are created equal.

adrenalinejunky wrote: [ i disagree - i didnt say there wasnt a large quantity of evidence concerning evolution, what i am saying is that since we are talking about the past, there really is no way to test or "prove" what did happen exactly, until such point that recorded history would allow us the perspective to witness the indications of such evolution.

This is certainly true - hence my point about "fact" in the literal sense of the word.  Science never proves anything to certainty.  But science can, and does, show us that one explanation is far more likely than any other explanation - and this is what evolution is.  Any scientific theoretician will admit that we do not literally "know for a fact" that evolutionary theory is correct - but, frankly, the same can be said for a bunch of other things that we think we "know."

Evolution is, however, far and above the best explanation we have, and it has been backed up by such massive volumes of evidence that we can safely act on the belief that it is correct.  Life or death decisions are made every day upon far less evidence than we have for evolutionary theory.

On a side note - you are far too focused on "the past."  Science does not divide into past and future, but into known and unknown.  Sometimes the past is known and the future unknown, and sometimes the opposite is true.  Just because we "weren't there to see it" does in no way mean that we cannot gain a great degree of certainty about it.  Does anybody doubt that the civil war happened, for instance?