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<p>I think you are conflating the scientific and colloquial meanings of “theory”. Evolution is a scientific theory, like quantum, general relativity, or universal gravitation. To use Wikipedia’s definition, which is more eloquent than I would be likely to come up with on my own, a scientific theory is a “testable model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation.” ID/creationism are about faith. That’s their <em>point</em>. They are conjectures (theories in the colloquial sense) that you believe in or don’t.</p>