Evolution: Not JUST a Theory Anymore

As of late more people seem to be learning about the theory of evolution. I would be happy about this, except for the fact that it's MISINFORMATION. I think a bit of quote mining is in order:

crazychristianguy777 :"Evoloution is simply a THEORY that scientists created to challenge creation."
-Poor Darwin, eh? Spending years alone on an island, and studying the lives and deaths of numerous animals just to be able to form the hypothesis of natural selection, which in turn took even more time to elaborate on... the man spent his entire life on some simple little argument just so people can have a counter argument against creation? If true, Darwin is super inefficient, because Ray comfort manages to spit out 20 logically flawed arguments a minute.

Bogzy1989:"evolution theory is pure imagination.the only evolution true is micro evolution."
-I bring to your attention to the killer bacteria that are immune to almost every kind of known antibiotic. This happens because of natural selection. They treat the viruses with an anti-biotic and let's say 98% of the viruses die. The other ones are strong enough to live though it, and slowly build up and immunity though the doctors attempting to treat the patient with the infection over and over. The bacteria and their offspring eventually become totally immune to death or any other negative effects through this drug. That IS evolution, and could be classified as macro evolution because the virus at the beginning is in essence another species, a species with it's own trait that makes it unique, a complete immunity to an anti-body.

williamholsey: news flash athiest. Your scientist are so smart that they can tell you what happened a "Million" years ago, they have said when the earth will end, yet they can't tell you where bin laden is. They couldn't even tell you that 9/11 was gonna happen and stop it. your scientist are about as smart as all of you who are on here giving your praise and worship to science. That's not very bright at all. Old asian saying. "There's always someone bigger than you" put that into your creation and think.
-This argument is an argumentum ad ignorantiam (also known as the argument from ignorance or argument from (personal) incredulity) it's a logical fallacy wherein the speaker claims that not knowing something can equate to not knowing another thing, for example: john doesn't know the Pythagorean theorem (a^2+b^2=c^2), therefore he does not know that 2+2=4, even though he says he does.

There are MANY misconceptions about evolution and natural selection, the most common objection I've heard to it is "I don't think man came from monkeys". I agree,I don't believe man came from monkeys either, as it is so eloquently put. This point is often over-emphasized, because human beings and most apes are all categorized in the category of hominidae. A group which includes homo sapiens(humans), the Pan troglodytes(chimpanzees), the entire gorilla genus, and the genus pongo(orangutans). Chimpanzees have 94-99.4% of our DNA, which is interesting, up to 99.4% of a humans make-up are identical to chimpanzee. This does not we've mean We've evolved from chimpanzees, only that we have a very common ancestor.
Another (very) common misconception is that evolution is JUST a theory. In science a theory is actually the second closest thing you can have to absolute knowledge, next to a law. The misconception comes in due to common language, because when you say "theory" you mean "idea". This is different in science, a theory is an idea that cannot be proven, only disproven, but has yet to be disproven. Saying that Evolution is JUST a theory is similar to saying gravity is JUST a theory, or that the existence of cells is JUST a theory. Most of the misunderstanding is the difference between common usage and scientific usage.

Since gravity is JUST a theory I'll have to leave you now, at least until I bolt my computer to the floor. Remember kids, all ballistics experts are stupid, because half of their work relies on a THEORY.