Blog #1 Why is evolution a theory and not a law?

     Theory in science means something else. It doesn't mean speculation, in science "theory" means explanation. A theory is an explanatory framework that incorporates all other data including laws. A law in science is descriptive of some kind of physical relationship for example the ideal gas law. Where as a theory is explanatory for example the ideal gas law would be explained as part of atomic theory. And you could quite easily prove that evolution is not real. Find a fossil mammal in the Silurian and you've done it. A law is a pattern that natural phenomena follow. So they're two different things. A law is great for predicting events, because we expect the events to follow the pattern. But the law won't explain why events follow the pattern. For that we need a theory.