First, colloquial definitions of the word 'theory' are used to denigrate the place of evolution in the world of scientific knowledge. In science, an idea can be a theory and a fact at the same time.

excerpted from The Logic of Scientific discovery (London: Hutchinson, 1959) by Karl Popper A scientist, whether theorist or experimenter, puts forward statements, or systems of statements, and tests ...

Scientists across the world form a scientific community. In school, your peer group are other students of your age. For scientists, their peers are other scientists, usually in the same area of ...

Gallium is an interesting element. When you look at it, it is a silvery metal that doesn’t seem to be anything special. When ...

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A scientific gentleman, in a recent conversation, broached to us a theory of taste and smell, which, so far as taste is concerned, is, we think, new. A similar theory in regard to smell has been ...

The Genesis stories should not be compared too closely to scientific theories. These scientific theories are much more recent. Some Christians believe that the seven days of creation outlined in ...

That’s the year Charles Darwin blinded us with the scientific theory of evolution. He turned science upside down, so to speak ...

For many people of various faiths, support for the scientific theory of evolution has not supplanted their religious belief. And throughout the modern Judeo-Christian tradition, leaders have ...

In 1817, Sir Humphrey Davy published his theory on the cauMs of the illuminating property of flames. He stated tha/ this phenomenon was due to the presence in the midst; of/the flame of solid ...