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"Some seem to have forgotten that its a theory and have elevated it to the status of being a scientific law." Theories don't get elevated to laws. As Wikipedia puts it: "Physical laws are distinguished from scientific theories by their simplicity. Scientific theories are generally more complex than laws; they have many component parts, and are more likely to be changed as the body of available experimental data and analysis develops. This is because a physical law is strictly empirical. It is a summary observation of things as they are. A theory is a model that accounts for the observation, explains it, relates it to other observations, and makes testable predictions based upon it. Simply stated, while a law notes that something happens, a theory attempts to deal with why or how it happens." In science, a theory is something currently believed true. "Hypothesis" is the word used as a synonym for "theory" in current parlance. I'm assuming your link to "Falsifiability" is supposed to imply that evolution is not falsifiable: http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CA/CA211.html
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