Creation "Science"

You know, if one of these shit-for-brains creationists say "evolution is only a theory!" one more time, I'm gonna scream and scream and scream until I make myself turn purple and vomit.

Yes, evolution is a theory! However, "theory" when talking about science means the following (thanks the the author of the Wikipedia article who is much more articulate than I am):

Often the statement "Well, it's just a theory," is used to dismiss controversial theories such as evolution, but this is largely due to confusion between the scientific use of the word theory and its more informal use as a synonym for "speculation" or "conjecture." In science, a body of descriptions of knowledge is usually only called a theory once it has a firm empirical basis, i.e. it

1. is consistent with pre-existing theory to the extent that the pre-existing theory was experimentally verified, though it will often show pre-existing theory to be wrong in an exact sense,


2. is supported by many strands of evidence rather than a single foundation, ensuring that it probably is a good approximation if not totally correct,


3. has survived many critical real world tests that could have proven it false,


4. makes predictions that might someday be used to disprove the theory, and


5. is the best known explanation, in the sense of Occam's Razor, of the infinite variety of alternative explanations for the same data.

This is true of such established theories as evolution, special and general relativity, quantum mechanics (with minimal interpretation), plate tectonics, etc.

So creation scientists, please go back to boycotting advertisers whose commercials are on during a little steamy TV and shove your science textbook stickers up your pompous, holy arses. TIA.

Update 1:

And while I'm on the subject, will you Jesus freaks please stop spreading the myth that evolution teaches humans evolved from apes? Scientists have been trying to dispel that one for over 100 years. Apes and humans have a common ancestor. Get it? Good.