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To: J-14 who wrote (355)	9/14/1999 9:06:00 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

J-14, I don't know that there is a concrete answer to your question. I would also say that your original assumption If there is so much evidence to support all these theories is a different issue than whether or not evolution has really happened. In fact, the various theories of evolution are evolving daily (that is an assumption) and until they stop evolving and all circumstances fit into the model, they will still be considered theory. Perhaps somebody else has a more comprehensive answer JXM

To: J-14 who wrote (355)	9/14/1999 9:18:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Who decides when a theory becomes a law, There is an orthodoxy, and a hierarchy in science. It mostly has to do with who has the ear of the peer-review magazines. For a credible publication an article must be passed to the "peers" (mostly college professors) for review, and if they respond favorably the article is published. In an article someone proclaims the idea to be a "law" or a "fact". Then other established readers write in yeay or nay and there is a more or less majority and the losers get heckled if they state their position. An un-heckled idea is a law. Science is performed by regular, although I would maintain smart, human beings. There are a lot of foibles and politics. What doesn't go away is the ideas. First of all, they are distributed, they tend to be dismissed only if they are truly absurd or hard to understand. Even the hard to understand show up later under a new champion if that person thinks recognition will result. This is truly the big-leagues of ideas. In a few thousand years what did religon accomplish? - some nice paintings and the dark ages. What did science accomplish in a few hundred? Just watch the telly. TP