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Re: Evolution as fact
Adrian Tanner (atanner@MORGAN.UCS.MUN.CA)
Wed, 6 Mar 1996 15:14:12 -0330
I have also wondered about calling evolution a 'fact'.
Once upon a time there was born in someone's head an 'idea'; it developed to
become a 'hypothesis', and later joined together to become a complex set of
hypotheses called a 'theory'; finally, when enough confirming observations,
and no disconfirming ones, had been made, it became a 'law'. To avoid
confusing it with it's legal namesake, it is often spoken of a 'scientific'
or 'natural' law.
Evolution is such a law, rather than a fact, isn't it?
Adrian Tanner, Dept of Anthropology, Memorial University, St John's,
Newfoundland, Canada. A1C 5S7. email atanner@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Tel 709 737
8868 fax 737 8686
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