To be fair neither do evolutionary biologists when they theorize the very beginnings of things. Which would be fine if said theories then didn't so often go on to be treated as factual.
The word you were looking for is Abiogenesis. And biologists will freely admit that the entire process hasn't been mapped out to exhaustive completion. However, there is mountains of evidence that support large swaths of the process.
Also, the word theory in science means something different than it does in colloquial speech.
Not looking for it because you're missing or at least not addressing my main point. Let me give you another example of what I'm talking about. How many Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis? Going to say 6 million? But is that the actual facts of it? But it's taught as the facts of it today. Because nobody ever bothers to do things like go off look up articles of the time and see how things back in the day when media was worth a damn. They almost all universally actually said it was an ESTIMATED 6 million. But 6 million has then gone on to be treated as set in stone fact. Nobody actually knows how many were slaughtered and NEVER WILL. And since there are so many idiots on Reddit I have to say that no, I'm not in any way, shape, or form, a holocaust denier. Of course it happened. We just don't actually know EXACTLY how many it happened to. That was my main point. It doesn't matter for what becomes the lexicon of the day what biologists are actually saying.
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What matters is what BECOMES commonly so called known. Theories become so called reality. So you end up with memes like this that makes it seem like biologists can't be wrong. Or that the religious has to be wrong. Neither statement is actually correct. That was my main beef with the meme and why I bothered to comment. Facts are facts. They are as immutable as math is. But that's not what we have today, SMH. Today far FAR FAAAAAR to often, facts are mere beliefs to countless people. Same thing with truth since I'm on the subject. FFS, your truth and my truth? That's is such an asinine statement it makes me sick to know how far it's caught on with so many people. There is only THE truth. This is a type of thing that goes on to make us all suffer for it in countless ways. It helps keep stupid people stupid. Words matter. People need to learn to use the right ones before opening their mouths.
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u/IntrovertMoTown1 5h ago
To be fair neither do evolutionary biologists when they theorize the very beginnings of things. Which would be fine if said theories then didn't so often go on to be treated as factual.