"Theories and hypothesis can never be proven. Using this as an argument tactic doesn't score you any points."
- This is false. When they are proven they become scientific laws...like Newtons 2 law of motion. Being ignorent of science doesnt score you any point either.
"The problem is that a group of loons are advancing an explanation that does not meet the criteria of "scientific theory" and calling it science."
- The notion of God is certainly scientific. "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium_ (1941) ch. 13 / You are going to have to do better than that.
Theories don't become laws or anything else. This has been covered many times.
Respectfully, you really shouldn't lecture anyone on science if you misunderstand something this basic.
You do realize that they have been disproven, don't you?
Oh, and BTW, the there are actaully three laws, not two. (Though some physicists like to think of the first law as a statement about frames of reference rather than a proper law. It's still called his first law, nontheless, and the other two his second and third laws.)
Whoever took the third law, please give it back. Did you honestly think we wouldn't miss it?
By definition, theories do not become laws, no matter how much proof there is, because they describe two very different things--a law being a tested and accepted explanation for an action which can be observed, often in the form of a mathematical equation, and a theory being an accepted and tested explanation for a series of related events.
Newton's laws of motion never existed as theories.