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To: Old_Mil
Certainly there is. It is called a "scientific law", and is defined as "a statement describing an observed regularity." It is only when a statement of science reaches such a level that it represents scientific fact.

You just can't help stepping in one pile after another.

Explain how Newton's Laws got replaced by Einstein's theory.

You also need to explain how observational facts are, in the long run, less reliable than theories.

Newton, in later printings of his works, "adjusted" his early observational data to conform to theoretical values.

This, of course, is now considered unethical, but in the practice of science, facts are corrected more often than theories.

236 posted on 04/19/2006 11:41:42 AM PDT by js1138 (~()):~)>)
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To: js1138
Explain how Newton's Laws got replaced by Einstein's theory.

Newton's laws haven't been replaced by Einstein's Theory of Relativity - they are subsets of the same that hold true for a given reference frame. Incidentally, we're getting pretty close to the point where we can declare Einstein's "theory" a "law" don't you think?
238 posted on 04/19/2006 11:44:59 AM PDT by Old_Mil (http://www.constitutionparty.org - Forging a Rebirth of Freedom.)
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