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Originally Posted by hannukah harry
hmm... okay, i think we're basically on the same page then. i disagree with you on there not being scientific fact (scientific laws are fact... which explains why there are so few). as in the law of gravity... gravity is a scientific fact... the theory of gravity... ie. how it works is not fact though. anyways, i think that's really not the issue.
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Scientific laws are no more 'fact' then scientific theories. "Laws" are statements about observations, such as the 2 law of thermodynamics.
Theories explain the hows and whys of laws. That's why there is a law of gravity (which doesn't explain the why's and how's of gravity) and the 'theory' of relativity (which explains the laws of gravity).