I'm sure it was never officially titled a thesis because by the time Darwin was out advancing his idea to the scientists of the day it had progressed well beyond that through his own continual observation and testing. What I meant was that I'm sure when Darwin very first came up with the idea, it wasn't all nicely fleshed out like it is now, or even as fleshed out as it was in his book. It all started as an idea in his head, a thesis, that sprung from his observations. He had to do more observation and testing to show that his ideas had scientific merit and to refine his ideas. He (and others who thought he was on to something) had to put the ideas through the scientific process and have them withstand that before the ideas could scientifically be considered a theory, in the way theory is defined in the scientific sense today. I'm just saying that ID should be required to go through that same process before it's proponents are allowed to label it as a scientific theory worthy of being taught in a science classroom. I think the BYU professor makes a much more eloquent case for this than I ever could: http://www.newutah.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=589... James Cobb <james@cobb.name> wrote: OK, I'll bite. For what years was evolution known as the "Thesis of Evolution" (a term I've never read in any literature), and what year did it become the "Theory of Evolution"? What triggered the transition? Inquiring minds want to know. Jim On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:04:03 -0700 (PDT), South Jordan Mom wrote:
See, even the deseret news is misusing the word "theory". It should be the Thesis of Intelligent Design against the theory of evolution. Evolution did once start out as a thesis, a hypothesis, and over time it became a theory. Intelligent Design needs to go through the same processes before it can correctly identify itself as a theory.
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