23 Jan '08 19:02>
Originally posted by MacSwainNo, it won't. Evolution has been shown to be consistent with the evidence in many different ways, but that doesn't mean it's been "proven," or that it ceases to be a theory. A theory, in science, is an just integraged articulation of many different facts and pieces of experimental evidence. It cannot be proven, and it doesn't need to be, because it's not a hypothesis. It's just a way of describing a set of scientific principles that have been found to be true.
Your own statement belies the truth. When the "theory of evolution is proven correct," it will cease to be a theory.