Theory of evolution

See also

Epistemology

Science and scientific method

Scientists in the past 'were creationists'

Scientists, modern, claims of doubt

Resources

'Only a theory'

Note: This is such a common misconception that replies to it are available in many, many places, often in lists of the most basic misconceptions about evolution.

Claim CA201: Evolution is only a theory

Claim CA202: Evolution has not been proved

Claim CA510: Creationism and evolution are the only 2 models

Claim CA510.1: Problems with evolution are evidence for creation

Brief responses in the Index to Creationist Claims in the TalkOrigins Archive.

Evolution is a Fact and a Theory

Post by Larry Moran on his Sandwalk blog, reproducing an article he'd written previously. Also available in the TalkOrigins Archive.

Only A Theory

Video in the How Creationism Taught Me Real Science series.

Evolution is a Fact and a Theory

Article by Laurence Moran in the TalkOrigins Archive.

Evolution as fact and theory

Article on Wikipedia.

15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense

Number one in the list in this Scientific American article is a good brief response. (It is unfortunate that the title of the article is so unhelpfully worded.)

‘Evolution is just a theory’ in the article ‘Arguments we think creationists should NOT use’

Even Creation Ministries International advises against using this argument.

Testability and falsifiability

See Testability/falsifiability

Theory 'in crisis’ / scientists 'doubting evolution’

Claim CA110: Evolution will soon be widely rejected

Brief response in the Index to Creationist Claims in the TalkOrigins Archive. See more on the pages Scientists in the past 'were creationists' and Scientists, modern, claims of doubt.

Is evolution ‘a theory in crisis’?

Article on the BioLogos website explaining briefly how there are or have been different schools of thought on specifics of evolutionary processes but that this doesn't mean that the whole theory is in crisis.

The Imminent Demise of Evolution: The Longest Running Falsehood in Creationism

Article by G R Morton on the Answers in Science site consisting mainly of a list of quotations from 1825 to 2019 claiming that the theory of evolution is in crisis or that its demise is imminent, showing that this has been claimed for a long time, despite it being just as strong as ever.

The truth about evolution

Post by creationist Todd Wood on his blog.

15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense

Number 4 in the list in this Scientific American article.

Definition of evolution

See Definition of evolution

Other

Claim CA215: Evolution is a useless theory

Claim CB090: Evolution is baseless without a theory of abiogenesis

Brief responses in the Index to Creationist Claims in the TalkOrigins Archive.