Well, Bill, you spent a lot of time researching topics related to this article.

Not only for your book on the historical atom, but in your continued work on your systematic

philosophical theology and your work in general.

So let's look over this article by creationist Dr. Jason Lyle titled Evolution is not

a theory.

I might mention Bill when I say creationist, he's a young earth creationist.

That is the terminology I think that he would be comfortable with, but we would typically

put him in that young earth camp.

Carl Sagan, he's quoting now the article Carl Sagan once said, evolution is a fact, not

a theory, and he was partly right, evolution is not a theory.

He's not right about evolution being a fact, of course, unless he meant evolution in the

most generic sense of change over time.

We all agree that things change over time, but Sagan was clearly referring to a specific

type of change, neo-Darwinian evolution.

This is the idea that all life on earth is descended from a common microbial ancestor,

with the information in our DNA is entirely the result of mutations over time that happened

to convey survival advantage.

It is this version of evolution that is neither a fact nor a theory.

End of quote.

Has he correctly characterized evolution, Bill?

Well, I think that Lyle is correct that evolution is not a theory.

That's because it is actually several theories.

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