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To: longnshort who wrote (50627)	3/24/2014 11:09:03 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

evolution is a theory If you want to be precise: evolution - which means that organisms have changed over time is a fact, it is proved by the facts that fossils of the past are different than organisms of the present. natural selection is the theory. (Evolution is not a theory, it is just the fact that things have changed). Natural selection has some simple principals but also many aspects which aren't simple so I don't think any scientist expects it will become a "law". Remember, even the "Law of Gravity" by Newton was shown to need modification when there was enough examination on the subject. Right now the study of evolution is comparable to a car which has gone from Texas to New Jersey. Evidence shows the car went from Texas to New Jersery. The scientists have determined that the car has a gas pedal which makes it go, a brake that makes it stop, and a steering wheel which changes the direction that it goes. In principal this explains how a car got from Texas to New Jersey. There is even intermediate studies of the environment that postulates stop signs, filling stations, and the difference between paved roads and obstacles. You are pointing out that maybe nobody knows how the car got out of the driveway. After all, it was pointed the wrong way in the driveway and we know that gas means go and brake means stop but nobody has any proof that a car could go backward. How absurd, press of the gas and go backwards???? obviously the car could not go from Texas to New Jersey since nobody explained how it got out of the driveway. The truth is, we just don't know everything yet. In the hypothetical it can be determined that the car must have got out of the driveway since we know it went from Texas to New Jersey. The same is true of life on earth. We know that it started prior to 3 billion years ago and that it got to here. We just aren't sure how it got out of the driveway.

To: longnshort who wrote (50627)	3/24/2014 11:13:00 PM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Recommended By Solon Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

yes in the sense that evolution is a theory and it won't be a LAW until we know we know everything about it, including when it started and how it started For reasons unknown it started 3.5 billion years ago and is still going. It won't ever be fully understood but sure beats a bunch of politicized fireside tales that were invented to control humans via guilt and shame.

To: longnshort who wrote (50627)	3/24/2014 11:35:45 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

evolution is a theory and it won't be a LAW Once again to be pedantic: Evolution just means living things changed over time. That has been proved within all definitions of proof. That is pretty much the definition of a fact. There are theories which explain why things have changed. That's what a theory is, an explanation of a fact. A LAW is something passed by a legislature. A while ago, maybe 500 years ago there were some theories about basic facts that astounded the educated community. They explained the facts so well, and so mathematically precisely that they must have been a LAW passed by God. That's because most of them thought there was a god which setup laws the way a legislature does. Now we know better.