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An individual who screws up the term, "Theory"... / "Proof"?
fohfoh:
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--- Quote from: relic2279 on April 21, 2010, 02:21:00 AM ---"Scientific laws and theories are two very different things and, despite what it may seem, one never becomes the other."
A theory never becomes a law. A theory always stays a theory.
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Interesting... and definitely NOT what I was taught in school. Granted, for me, high school was ~20 years ago, college was 15 years ago, and FL is not known as a bastion of education.
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Yeah I know. Some of the sites stuff I was reading... I was like... "DAMN YOU BILL NYE! DAMN YOU!"
mizore:
A law in science is the same as a mathematic definition. Basically, a base formula or constant extrapolation accepted as a given.
Theories are vastly more complex than a simple law. As I stated before, they can venture into the realm of science fact with ample supporting evidence of validity. Sometimes, they can even bring about new constants/definitions/laws that comprise some of the component principles of the theory.
fohfoh:
That's what I thought. But this weirdo jumps into the forum yelling at us as if we had though that 1+1=3 was correct.
Proin Drakenzol:
--- Quote from: relic2279 on April 21, 2010, 02:21:00 AM ---
--- Quote from: Proin Drakenzol on April 21, 2010, 02:03:17 AM ---A theory becomes a law when it proves resilient to disproof. Otherwise we'd have no laws, only theories.
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/facepalm
"Scientific laws and theories are two very different things and, despite what it may seem, one never becomes the other."
http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Scientific_theory#Theories_are_different_from_laws
http://www.nsta.org/store/product_detail.aspx?id=10.2505/4/sc09_046_05_52
http://www.britannica.com/bps/additionalcontent/18/36066585/Q-How-does-a-scientific-theory-become-a-scientific-law
A theory never becomes a law. A theory always stays a theory.
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Huh, oops, my bad. You're still wrong about the rest of it, though.
mgz:
IMO you should take this in another direction, start providing evidence for creationism just to be an ass. And bring up other theories that are fairly popular in the creation of the universe.
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