'I note that this chap doesn't believe in evolution either.' good to see his not brain dead.

"There aren’t sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution"

That's right. That's why it remains a theory. It's the same reason why Relativity remains a theory.

"A theory is a conceptual framework that explains existing observations and predicts new ones."

The THEORY of evolution explains a lot of what we observe and think we know about the past. But it doesn't explain all observations and it is subject to amendment as new data becomes available. eg just in the last year or so, new discoveries have called in question the 'out of africa' theory of man's evolution. These new discoveries using new DNA techniques cause the theory to change.

Facts don't change- theories do.

I would like to see see something similar here instead of the slightly less silly than Labor's promises to wreck our economy via ludicrously expensive electricity.

I’m amazed that the tired old “climate change denier” epithet is still being used by people with no arguments outside their rusted on ideology. Nothing the doomsayers predicted has eventuated. The money they scammed off us would have been better used in finding measures to adapt to climate change.

//"There aren’t sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution"

That's right. That's why it remains a theory. It's the same reason why Relativity remains a theory.//

Really? You don't think there's sufficient empirical data to support evolution or relativity? O.... kay. Sounds like somebody's drunk the Kool-Aid.

"Really? You don't think there's sufficient empirical data to support evolution or relativity?"

Define 'support'.

Earlier I wrote "The THEORY of evolution explains a lot of what we observe and think we know about the past." So clearly I think there's lots of empirical data.

But the point Pruitt (and many others) make is that it remains a theory. I doesn't explain everything and it remains subject to revision. Therefore its not fact. 'The sun rises in the east' is a fact'...'the sun will extinguish all its fuel in 5 billion years' is a theory.

In context, Pruitt's point was that we should be aware that evolution is a theory, as yet not fully proven.

Saying that its largely supported so lets pretend its a fact is not exactly the scientific way. But if you can play pretend in order to mock political opponents, then, it seems, acting unscientifically is just fine....with some.

Just like the theory of climate change, it was once an accepted known fact that stress & worry caused stomach ulcers.

Well it was until someone proved it was all garbage.

Now Pruitt is going to require the climate scam people to present their evidence for their conclusion.

As we all know, that despite billions of public funds spent trying to find or more often fabricate, [hide the decline], they have nothing to prove CO2 has any effect on anything but plant growth.