Accepted Quote by Anthony Standen

Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a fact, ..…

— Richard Dawkins

In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence…

— E. O. Wilson

Evolution is far more than a belief or an educated guess about how people came to be as they are. It is, in fact,…

— Alan I. Leshner

People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand what that…

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity does to…

— Leonard Mlodinow

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

— Jimmy Swaggart

The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in…

— George Gaylord Simpson

Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of…

— Donald Johanson

Of course, the other thing about evolution is that anything can be said because very little can be disproved. Experimental evidence is minimal.

— Bryan Appleyard

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an…

— L. Harrison Matthews

There aren't sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution, and it deals with the origins of man, which is more from a…

— Scott Pruitt

Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief…

— Alan I. Leshner