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Ancient armored fish revises early history of jaws
Science News ^ | 10/20/16 | Meghan Rosen

Posted on 10/22/2016 3:56:17 PM PDT by JimSEA

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To: Amendment10; JimSEA
Amendment10: "The 'laws' of evolution are evidently as politically correct as global warming 'science.'
This is evidenced by evolution laws being revised every time a dog digs up a strange bone in the backyard."

Are you joking?
There are no "laws" of evolution, or global warming for that matter.
Science proper is basically about three things:

  1. confirmed observations = facts, i.e., descent with modifications and natural selection.

  2. testable explanations = hypotheses, i.e., various abiogenetic origin of life proposals.

  3. confirmed hypothesis = theory, i.e., Darwin's basic evolution theory.

Yes, some scientific ideas are honored as "laws" -- formulas found to work consistently.
Newton's "laws" of motion come to mind, even though Einstein's relativity theory shows they don't always apply.

But science, especially evolution, is all about searching for new data to confirm or help modify previous hypotheses & theories.

Evolution of jaws:

21 posted on 10/23/2016 5:05:10 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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