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Originally Posted by pokey  It seems a lot of people here think natural selection = evolution. Not so. Natural selection does happen, those black and white Peppered Moths from England are a good example. It is not that the moths morphed into darker moths when their surroundings got darker, as was previously assumed, it's simply that the lighter moths stood out and got eaten, and the darker ones didn't, and vice versa when the area was cleaned up. Similarly, natural selection happens on the plains of Africa and anywhere else where predators attack herd animals. The fast animals are able to run away to live and reproduce, and the weak animals, be they young, old, or simply sick, get eaten.
It is sad that so many creationists and such get wrapped up in thinking that natural selection is part of evolution, and try to claim it doesn't happen/exist. It is very visible to see, and while Darwin was one of the first to study it, associating it with him doesn't make it a theory, unlike some of his other work.
Furthermore, on that note, Evolution is still just "the theory of Evolution" regardless of how most people approach it today, including Academia. It has not been proven, and remains simply one mans idea of how life might have come to be. Somehow in the past 100 years that has become twisted, with people thinking that Evolution is scientific fact, when in reality it has no more proof and standing than any other creation theory.
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Oh my - lots of problems here.
First - you are talking about adaptation not evolution through natural selection. Evolution is the result of natural selection -- not sure how you are separating the two unless you are again confusing natural selection with adaptation.
Ah the old "it's just a theory" and so isn't proven argument. Theory doesn't mean guess - do you know gravity is also just another theory? The Earth revolves around the Sun is yet another theory.
Evolution has the fossil record, genetics, astronomy - literally millions of pieces of evidence in its favor. It sounds like you haven't kept up with the evidence and science regarding Evolution through Natural Selection - its not like it stopped evolving (haha) after Darwin's death.
And if the theory didn't "work" scientists would abandon it. But the predictions made using evolution do work and every time this happens the case for evolution grows stronger.