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should it be taught that some scientific theories are "laws?"  |
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 Replies: 18 — Last Post Mar. 29, 2007 10:10am by rchaneberg
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Meep123
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Yes; some "theories" need to just be accepted as true. I don't see the fuss over the name.
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Collin
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No, because they are theories, they have not been proven.
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leprechaunjax
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laws and theories r diff.
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kiralynn2007
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no
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As far as I can tell, a law is a theory which is in harmony with what we know or realize for an extended period of time. Was the flat-earth theory a law at one time? How about geocentrism?
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DthFlame666
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everything is relative to something else so nothing can trully be proven
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senorita smirnoff
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some things need to be taught as fact, especially at school when children are first learning things like chemistry, if u tell them about all the exceptions and holes in theories they wont understand the basic concepts of the standard methods
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norock
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eh, we discover Science-altering things all the time. soon all these theories we have now will be proven incorrect or miniscule.. it happens, as we evolve/grow, so to does our "understanding" [or lack there-of] of our surroundings... maybe someday we will be more enlightened, or fully enlightened, but till then, i say "whatever"...
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Quote: from Collin at 7:03 pm on Mar. 26, 2007
 No, because they are theories, they have not been proven. 
Actually, I distinctly recall being taught, year after year, that a theory does not become a law once it is 'proven'. A theory, or so Ive been told, cannot become a law. But that always made me wonder -- where the hell do the laws come from? They're just made as laws right off the bat? Isn't that a little pretentious?
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