[Black Jesus]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you examine the evidence between a scientific law and a scientific theory, the evidence is going to be of similar caliber and scope.

You, like most people, are mistaking the laypersons term "theory" with "scientific theory." the two terms couldn't be more different. A "theory" is really more of a hypothesis. If it was the "hypothesis of common descent," you'd be right the fuck on. But it's not. The "hypothesis of common descent" now has a "body of evidence," and it has been "repeatedly confirmed" to be the likely mechanism for speciation in known species.

Do you know what scientists do? How they get famous in the community? I'm not talking about the one dude who came up with string theory, that's a given. I'm talking about scientist royalty. They get royal by disproving so many other scientists that their name becomes a by-word for the fear of failure. Scientists go around trying to find ways to make other scientists wrong.

And yet, despite all of the opposition you listed (I wasn't surprised when you posted that), and all the opposition that doesn't make it to the publishing table, common descent is still accepted by the MASSIVE majority of biological scientists - staunch contrarians all - and only grudgingly, because they have to. THAT is what makes it a theory.

theory's a theory a theory. science always changing things, now they want to redefine a word