Why hasn “big science” changed evolution from a theory to a law?
It wasn’t science or scientists that defined evolution as a “theory”. By definition a theory is something based on conjecture and assumptions, based on observations but with no real evidence. As when a crime is committed the police might have a theory as to whom the perpetrator is, but without any tangible evidence it would be thrown out of court. Similarly when Darwin first proposed the “theory” he based it on observations, not any real evidence. Since them many advances in science and technology have been made (e.g. DNA) and evolution is no longer a theory, but there are those (e.g. the Big Religion “mafia”) that that continue to call it that to advance their own cause.
We still live in the remains of what was once a democracy. Established science has to follow their own rules and can’t say evolution is a fact when they don’t have absolute proof, even though there is enough circumstantial evidence to suggest it is true. If they would just admit that because evolution has so much design throughout it that there must be God behind it, they could say that evolution is creation, which is the most logical conclusion. Established science though is too big headed and too set against superstitious beliefs to even admit to another dimension or to a spiritual world that probably exist, yet they believe in something outrageous as quantum physics that is more crazier than any religion.
A scientific law is designed to describe an observation across a set of conditions. A scientified theory is designed to explain those observations. Theories and laws do not “grow from” or supercede one another. EDIT: phoenix-I actually paraphrased the science dictionary I was using. Didn’t realize the wiki article used the same dictionary.
A scientific “law” can be summed up in a single sentence, whereas a theory takes rather more than that. Also, evolution is the cornerstone of biology. Biology, as you will no doubt be aware, is the study of life. Life is…well, it’s alive. It doesn’t lend itself to simple, convenient laws. Life is just not that easy to define.
