Ignoring that the terminology is generally not of a “story”, that is a generally true statement. But the important part is what comes next: we go out and test those hypotheses. Even if we haven’t fully formulated particular ones, an observation like the one here:
is a test of evolution by testing the general prediction that “forms of intermediate age should be intermediate in form.” And I could provide a few other examples, but the idea is the same.
All right, where are they? As apparently I’m either willfully blind, delusional, or brainwashed, given that all the “holes” I have so far encountered are either somewhere in a gray area between laughably wrong, depressingly wrong, and offensively wrong; are irrelevant; or involve committing logical fallacies.
Neo-Darwinian is a subset of the Theory of Evolution.