Ian Mather

What is an evolutionist? Is it a branch of a belief system?

Sounds about right. I would say it is someone who has let evolution take the place of a religion in their life.

Steve Shaw says -

one does have to wonder whether Snail is an "evolutionist" at all!

Let me assure him that I most certainly am not.

But Steve says: Of course, if you do say a theory is true and you have good evidence to back up that claim, it ceases to be a theory.

I had to read that several times to work out if Steve had made an editing mistake or something but, no, I think he really means it. It seems that he no longer considers evolution (or the theory of evolution or Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, it becomes steadily less clear which he is speaking about.) to be a theory and, therefore, not part of science. So what does he think it is?