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To: orionblamblam
"Probably something along the lines of, "Our 300 voices outweigh the voices of several hundred thousand other scientists who understand that evolution is an established fact."

Theory of evolution.

Law of gravity.

Hmmm. . .evolution is not a law. Apparently, it's not such an established fact after all.

291 posted on 05/07/2004 10:36:17 AM PDT by MEGoody (Kerry - isn't that a girl's name? (Conan O'Brian))
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To: MEGoody
Yawn.
292 posted on 05/07/2004 10:59:36 AM PDT by orionblamblam
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To: MEGoody
Hmmm. . .evolution is not a law. Apparently, it's not such an established fact after all.

You are aware that scientific laws are no more "established facts" than scientific theories, aren't you? That is to say in science a theory doesn't "graduate" to become a "law" when the evidence becomes persuasive.

In science, "laws" are descriptive and "theories" are explanatory. A "law" nothing more than a statement of some empirically observed relationship (hence it is descriptive in nature), while a "theory" is explanatory, in that it is a conceptual framework explaining the mechanics behind a range of related phenomona.

BOTH are held tentatively, pending the potential discovery of refuting evidence.

294 posted on 05/07/2004 11:34:31 AM PDT by longshadow
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