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It is a complex process that takes into account the mining of evolutionary data, the subsequent analysis of the mining process results for producing evolution facts, the use of visualizations supported by interaction techniques and the active participation of users.
The teaching of evolution facts and mechanisms (according to the Tunisian educational content, 1998).
In science, the report explains, a "theory" is an explanation for a set of known facts and observations--in the case of evolution, facts and observations about the "similarities among organisms" and the "extraordinary variety of life".
This measure did not assess students' knowledge of evolution facts; in this respect, it differs from extant measures of students' acceptance of evolution (e.g., Rutledge and Warden 1999), which tend to conflate acceptance and understanding.
Vance Ferrell, who said he put together the material posted on Evolution-facts.org, said if the paper had been retracted he would remove the reference to it.
Another creationist site, Evolution-facts.org, says his findings mean that "within a few minutes, all the various parts of the living organism had to make themselves out of sloshing water," an impossible feat without a supernatural hand.
As the late, great Stephen Jay Gould put it in his classic 1994 paper, "Evolution as Fact and Theory in Science," "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent".
