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To: ellenripley

Check again. Most scientists consider gravity a law. Science does have laws, you know.


73 posted on 01/03/2006 1:26:00 PM PST by mlc9852
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To: mlc9852; ellenripley
Check again. Most scientists consider gravity a law. Science does have laws, you know.

Not true. In fact the law of gravity is limited. Gravitational theory (General Relativity) is far more encompassing. Thusly gravity is a theory as well as evolution.

89 posted on 01/03/2006 1:40:41 PM PST by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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Wilful militant ignorance placemarker.


90 posted on 01/03/2006 1:40:51 PM PST by Thatcherite (More abrasive blackguard than SeaLion or ModernMan)
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To: mlc9852
Most scientists consider gravity a law

Gravity is described by theory, just like everything else in science. When people say they drop somehting and it falls, that is a demonstration of the effect of gravity, but it is not an explanation of why the object fell. That explanation is the Theory of Gravity.

This parallels evolution. Species change and diverge over time. The fossil record and the science of genetics demonstrates this. That is a fact. Evolution explains why these changes occur, just like how the theory of gravity explains why things fall. If you don't want theories in science taught, you then are demanding no science be taught. Hence, you are anti-science.

420 posted on 01/04/2006 8:49:06 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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