- No they are not.
Yes, in fact they are. As I said before a law is an explanation for a single observable event, which has gained widespread acceptance in the scientific community. A theory, like a law, is tested and overwhelmingly accepted, but it differs in that it explains a general idea based on a series of related events, such as plate tectonic theory, which can never be a law, because it's not a single event.
A THEORY is a hypothesis or group of hypotheses which have been validated but not to the point of near certainty.
Whoever told you that should not be teaching science
In other words, theories can progress into laws as their hypothesis are proven to the point of near certainty.
No, not at all. Plate Tectonic Theory is as close to a certainty as you will find in geology, yet a law it shall never be.
It is cut and pasted from the linked website. I feel embarrassed for the publication as the website author wouldn't even pass 7th grade science class with those definitions.
"No, not at all. Plate Tectonic Theory is as close to a certainty as you will find in geology, yet a law it shall never be."
- It is not fundamental to the workings of the universe, therefore your assertion is correct, just stupid, since it doesn't apply to the argument.