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... [Dawkins'] insistence on using the word "fact" is, I believe, more of a
rhetorical device than a logical one. He is trying to emphasize that,
based on the overwhelming evidence and the interlocking methods by
which evolution is taken to occur, evolution by natural selection is
as close to a "fact" as almost anything scientific can be. The idea
is over 150 years old, and all of the evidence so far developed
supports it fully. ...