Dear idiots who don't know what they are talking about

Dear idiots who don't know what they are talking about,

I know that you think you know what you're saying. Your confidence is almost charming. However, anybody with a rudimentary knowledge of everything such as myself knows you're just using words to glam up your point.

Stop using the word evolution for things that are not to do with speciation. Evolution is a very specific thing and the theory outlines that mistakes are not the cause of it. Only catastrophic mistakes interfere with evolution, otherwise it might well be survivable. You mean adaptation. Adaptation is a process of fitting to a new purpose or circumstance. It's a biological term too but it fits in with living behavior not simply genetic predisposition. Over using the word evolution helps to confuse those who don't understand it and elongates pointless scientific arguments with those that are not even remotely scientific.

Also, I beg of you, stop using the term relative in a way that you think is a wink to relativity. You mean comparative. Relativity is pretty specific too and I'd like you to stop touching my precious science. When something is relative to you, you are talking of comparison. When I talk of something relative it's about observing the universe with a dependence on my current velocity and position. There's a bit of a difference.

Finally stop using the word theory. You don't understand the word theory if you have no proof and call it a theory. When you say "I have a theory that all oranges are actually blue" or whatever bollocks it is you're coming up with that drug-addled day; you mean "I am postulating that all oranges are actually blue". This is very confusing for you I know but that is because you have no idea what you are talking about. I see this word misused by people postulating and by people dismissing: "It's only a theory". Yes, it's only an accurate, experimented, proven and peer reviewed theory yes. No, it is not necessarily accurate but then at least it's a working idea. The Theory of Gravity had holes the size of the sun in it. Relativity put pay to that. It doesn't make the mathematics behind Gravity wrong, it simply meant that the implications were not accurate so it had to be refined properly.

Stop using my language if you can't deal with this or get your shit together.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Southey