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Both, evolution and the theory of evolution, have a great deal of evidence in support of them. That is why the vast majority of scientists in the relevant fields fully accept both evolution and the theory of evolution.
On the other hand, because there is so much evidence for both evolution and the theory of evolution, the promoters of creationism, in their web sites and books, are forced to resort to misrepresentations, deceit, and outright lies in their attempts to refute evolution and evolutionary theory.
And ignorant, gullible lay creationists just lap it all up and regurgitate it here on Y!A.
As several of your responders have shown.
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For more clarification, both scientific theories and laws begin with observations of some aspect of nature. From those initial observations, hypotheses are developed. Whether--after further investigation, analysis, and development--a hypotheses becomes a law or a theory depends on whether it provides a comprehensive description of the way the aspect acts, in which case it becomes a law, usually as a mathematical expression, or it provides a comprehensive explanation of the reason why that aspect is as it is, in which it case it becomes a theory.
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stevesmith_101 say: Because there's no evidence for evolution.
And plenty of evidence for God, Ron Wyatt found loads of evidence for God.
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Aggy say: Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
Thus to demonstrate that evolution is true scientists need to look at a number of different disciplines. Genetics to demonstrate how genes can mutate, biology to show the different species. zoology to show how species are currently adapting to their changing environment, botany to demonstrate the same for plants. They then go to paleontology to provide evidence of past species etc. So ALL these disciplines are combined together to provide the THEORY of evolution. Within that theory, as you can see, there will be many laws. Laws governing how DNA operates -its chemistry, laws governing genetic inheritance etc.
So a scientific theory is an overarching description and can embrace many individual laws.
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Denver say: The difference between laws and theories is arbitrary. The theory of evolution is just that, a scientific theory. Same as gravity and general relativity. It has been thoroughly tested and verified so unless we find evidence to the contrary it's our best explanation.
People in every day life use the word theory the same way a scientist would use the word hypothesis. Which leads them to believe that when a scientist says "The theory of evolution" they're really saying "The idea of evolution" when they're saying "The highly verified scientific observation of evolution"
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