The word
theory, according to the
Oxford English Dictionary, is “a hypothesis that has been confirmed
or established by observation or experiment, and is propounded or accepted as accounting for the known facts.”
To be considered a theory, something must be “confirmed” and account for the “known facts.”
Evolution has been neither
In contrast, a “hypothesis” as defined by
Oxford is “a proposition or principle put forth or stated
(without any reference to its correspondence with fact) merely as a basis for reasoning or argument .…
[A] provisional supposition from which to draw conclusions that shall be in accordance with known facts,
and which serves as a starting-point for further investigation by which it may be proved or disproved
and the true theory arrived at.”
More simply stated, a hypothesis is an idea or a guess at something without facts to support it.
If the evidence proves the hypothesis, it then becomes a theory
The idea of evolution has never reached that step. At best, evolution is a hypothesis.
Unproven and without “correspondence with fact,” it stands as an idea scientists seem
desperate to substantiate, though they remain unable to do so. An examination of the
facts easily proves there is no theory of evolution.