Sun goes up. Sun goes down. Never a miscommunication.

That's all their is to it.

Yeah, I couldn't link to the article, thanks Doc

I don't know which is worse; their misunderstanding of evolution or their misunderstanding of thermodynamics.

Churches are nice though!

Yeah, colloquially people tend to understand "theory" to mean something like "someone's unproven explanation they dreamed up for something." A scientific theory is not that. They hear evolutionary *theory*, then, and it sounds like this tenuous thing, one "theory" among many.

It's also worth noting that science is competitive. If a particular finding is published, scientists all over the world can benefit in numerous ways if they're able to discredit/disprove/add to that finding. There's a whole range of findings that could theoretically call evolution by means of natural selection into question. Every creationist and/or I.D. "scientist" in the world can do this. All they have to do is come up with some actual science -- replicatable findings in put out in an established, peer-reviewed publication. They'd be instantly famous. So far, crickets. They publish their "findings" in their own journals precisely because the work would never stand up to proper scientific scrutiny.