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To: Dimensio

I can always come up with a better formal definition, but I'm no scientist. I wager you that even among scientists they disagree on a definition of law and theory.


230 posted on 02/10/2006 9:25:42 PM PST by TheBrotherhood (Randomness does not create intelligence; only intelligence creates intelligence.)
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To: TheBrotherhood
I can always come up with a better formal definition, but I'm no scientist.

Inventing definitions won't change things. You can't make evolution go away by redefining the word "theory".

I wager you that even among scientists they disagree on a definition of law and theory.

Not really. Having fixed definitions for those terms makes doing science a lot easier.
233 posted on 02/10/2006 9:33:56 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: TheBrotherhood; Dimensio
I wager you that even among scientists they disagree on a definition of law and theory.

Only on the issue of where the "edges" lie (i.e., how to dinstinguish borderline cases). The basic meaning of "law" and "theory" are pretty well agreed upon, though.

241 posted on 02/10/2006 9:57:08 PM PST by Ichneumon
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