The Barbarian
Crabby Old White Guy
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Newton's Laws of Motion are not a theory. They are merely laws. Laws explain what scientists expect to see under specific circumstances. Theories also do this, but in addition, theories also explain why. Hence Newton's Laws of Motion, but Newton's theory of Gravitation. Like Evolutionary Theory, Gravitational theory is accepted because both of these make predictions that have been repeatedly confirmed by subsequent evidence. Gravitational Theory is mot quite as hard a physical theory as Evolutionary theory; we know why evolution works, but we still aren't quite sure why gravity works.Unlike Newton's three laws of motion, the Theory of Evolution is not a hard physical theory.
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