Re: OT: Religion and Science (WAS: Making money from Java)

> Evolution *IS* a theory.

No. Evolution is an observable phenomenon. There are theories about
what causes it, about which ancestral forms begat later species, about
why certain characteristics are advantageous. Of course, if you study
the world on your knees with your eyes closed then you will have
difficulty observing anything.

> Much like, as you say later in this post, that gravity is a theory.

No. Gravity is not a theory. There are theories about what causes it.

>"Tomorrow, when I let go of the ball, it will fall to the ground." That
> is a prediction, and we do NOT know it will be true.

Some things in science are so certain that we raise them to the level
of 'laws'. You will find, if you look, that gravity is one of these.
Not only the fact that gravity is certain, but the strength of it and
how it varies with distance. Gravity is not a 'theory' though certain
interactions with light are theories and black holes have not, for
obvious reasons, been directly observed, so they remain theoretical.

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