[spunkets]

"Your argument depends on changing the law to “Matter and energy cannot, and never could at any time in the past, be created or destroyed.”"

Matter is energy and your proposed changes render the law overly verbose and complicated.

" But you are not authorized to change the wording of the law."

LOL!

[reasonisfaith]

No, matter is not energy. It is the speed of light squared, divided by energy. But we’re focused on the law of conservation of energy. I propose no changes to this law.

To do so would make no sense and would be a very significant error—the same error you are making when you try to change it.

The law of conservation of energy states: “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.”

You have changed this law to the following: “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, and this status has always been true.”

Your version of the law of conservation of energy is not valid. You can’t just change the wording of scientific laws. Science doesn’t work this way.