Re:such criticisms... (Score 1)

No, evolution is not "just" a theory; it's a very well founded model that is based on many evidences both theoretical and empirical. It is just that the nature of evolution is so very difference than of e.g. traditional physic where you can prove the theories by the means of experiments, which results are predicted by the model of the theory. Evolution research mostly involves looking for traces of processes spanning millions of year (which in itself makes it almost impossible for humans to comprehend due inability in perceive time periods of a larger scale than a human life time) at a global scale under conditions that we know little about. Although, the mechanism of evolution is fare from fully understood, there is no sound scientific evidence against the core principles evolution and frankly I have often found it amusing that people can reject evolution as "not proved" while proposing something so un-founded and non-scientific as religion as an alternative. The evolutionary model may still lack much to desire but in there has never been presented just one single evidence of the existence of a supreme being so who should do the proving here?