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Darwin's Theory: Law, Fact, Theory, or Hypothesis?
The origins debate has recently made the news through the attempted placement of disclaimer stickers in school science textbooks. (Originally published in 2005) These stickers warn students that evolution is only a theory, not a fact.
At the scopes evolution trail of 1925, exactly 80 years ago this summer, one of the scientific witnesses claimed that Darwinism was not just a theory but a scientific law, as firmly established as the law of gravity. This highlights one of the big points of origins controversy – is Darwinian macroevolution a fact to be taught as truth? Is it a theory, a hypothesis, or even a scientific law? Where does it fit best?
It helps to simply go to the dictionary and look up the basic definitions of these terms. Once we have these definitions firmly in mind, the proper category for Darwinism becomes quite apparent. So, according to the Oxford English and the World Book Dictionaries, here are the definitions:.......Read More 
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