Mike Anderson
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/ 13 April 2006

Evolution: Fact or theory?

As is so often the case with questions of this sort, a lot depends on what is meant by the terms. If the term evolution includes the strange ethics, suspect metaphysics and optimistic ideas about progress that some try to extract from science — in other words, a raft of extra–scientific accretions — then evolution is not a theory in the scientific sense.