[cookcounty]

" Evolution is not a scientific law; it's a mere hypothesis."

Evolution is an hypothesis, or theory, about natural history, but there is no way to properly classify it as "science" any more than an explanation the causes of the Civil War can be described as "science."

---though, on this site, I'm sure that there are many who believe they have the "War of Northern Aggression" down to a pretty exact "science!"

[Thatcherite]

Exactly how does evolution fail to be properly classified as science? As a theory it explains the observed facts (millions upon millions of them); it makes numerous successful predictions (many of which were not common-sense obvious when first predicted); and many potentially falsifying observations have confirmed it rather than falsifying it. No scientific theory can say more than that, and there is no higher status in science for an explanation of "how things work" than "theory".

[DannyTN]

"---though, on this site, I'm sure that there are many who believe they have the "War of Northern Aggression" down to a pretty exact "science!"

Yep, and the cause was "Damn Yankees". That's a scientific fact.

[shubi]

That analogy is about as mismatched as any I have ever seen.

[donh]

Evolution is an hypothesis, or theory, about natural history, but there is no way to properly classify it as "science"

Does that also eliminate intergalactic astronomy as a science?

[donh]

Evolution is an hypothesis, or theory, about natural history, but there is no way to properly classify it as "science"

Does that also eliminate intergalactic astronomy as a science?