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Originally Posted by madsenj37
All I have been trying to say is that it is not the law of evolution, it is still a theory at this point.
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Once again, there will never be a LAW of evolution. That isn't how science works. Your use of the words law theory shows that you do not have a proper understanding of the scientific meanings of the words.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?art...DF&catID=2
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Many people learned in elementary school that a theory falls in the middle of a hierarchy of certainty--above a mere hypothesis but below a law. Scientists do not use the terms that way, however. According to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a scientific theory is "a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses." No amount of validation changes a theory into a law, which is a descriptive generalization about nature. So when scientists talk about the theory of evolution--or the atomic theory or the theory of relativity, for that matter--they are not expressing reservations about its truth.
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