[Stultis]

Think of the gas laws as opposed to thermodynamic theory.

Sure, and I think that makes my point that theories do not become laws, but instead that theories explain laws. The Kinetic Theory of Gases explains Boyle's Law. (The Kinetic Theory of Gases suggested that gases may be conceived as composed of molecules that act like little billiard balls, and Boyles Law quantified the relation between the volume and pressure of a gas assuming constant temperature. The Kinetic Theory provides a mechanism to account for why pressure increases as volume decreases, e.g. because a halving of volume doubles the number of molecules striking the interior walls of the gas' container.)

Note also Boyle' Law (1662) historically preceeded The Kinetic Theory of Gases (1738) by a considerable margin.

How does a theory graduate to the alledgely higher status of a law when the law came before the theory? Indeed this particular instance conforms to the general case. Descriptive laws usually do preceed corresponding explanatory laws. The same is true, for instance, in the case of gravity. In fact, hundreds of years after Newton provided us with the laws describing and predicting it's behavior, we still do not have a complete and satisfactory theory of gravity.

[Stultis]

Correction:

Descriptive laws usually do preceed corresponding explanatory laws theories.

[Virginia-American]

Sure, and I think that makes my point that theories do not become laws, but instead that theories explain laws

We're in agrement, I thought this was a particularly well-known example of the difference between laws and theories.

[gore3000]

Your whole long tirades are just an excuse for not giving any proof for the theory of evolution. You sound like Clinton, attacking everyone because of his own misdeeds, trying to belittle those who have done great things because your side has done nothing at all.