There all sorts of "scientists," political scientists, social scientists,
etc. Therefore, we have to be careful of whom we mean. My statement still
stands that evolutionary theory is not on equal footing with physics. I do
not know of any theory of evolution that can be written down and what is
written down makes predications which can be verified in the future. In
physics what is written down is in mathematical form. I seriously doubt that
such a theory can ever be found. I really do not believe that evolutionary
theory can ever be falsified. Phenomenology is the term we use for ideas in
physics that do not qualify as theories. I do agree with you that most
scientists in the hard sciences do consider evolutionary theory a
respectable theory. But my criteria of what constitutes science is based on
physics as the prototype of science.
Moorad