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Originally Posted by WiscoGirl
You mistake one big thing. Science isn't fact. Science is always theory until the theory is proven. When a particular scientific theory can be proven (over & over & over) it then becomes scientific law. For an example of scientific theory becoming scientific law seek Sir Isaac Newton's many scientific laws. His law of gravity can be proven mathematically. Science and math are intricately woven.
Science in order to become law must be proven. Science is in no way ever simply a fact.
P.S. no, we are not all that dumb, however the Fabian socialists would like us to be.
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Agreed. However I would take it one step further: no scientific "law", is ever immutable, no matter how set-in-stone the evidence points it out to be. A good example is in physics: the laws of mechanics and thermodynamics work precisely as they should--every time--EXCEPT when things are taken down to the quantum level, where such "laws" appear to be broken with impunity.
This is one reason (the primary reason, actually) that I question whenever a scientific "fact" becomes dogma; a belief so ingrained in the believers that they won't even admit to the faintest possibility that their belief might not be quite as rock-solid as they'd like to believe it is. Good science is ALWAYS ready (and should be willing) to revise whatever theory or "law" based on new evidence.
It is certainly that way with evolution. Things change as new facts (and fossils) come to light. We should be able to accept them, even though they might not support our own ideas or beliefs.