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Originally Posted by Gypsified
That is not called 'theory' in scientific language. That is called hypothesis. A hypothesis is something that has little to no evidence in its support and thus there are different opinions. When considerable evidence is accumulated, it becomes a theory. If it can be expressed in mathematical form, it is a law. Evolution is a theory because it is not mathematical. Gravity is a law because it can be expressed mathematically.
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You're mistaken here. General Theory of Relativity and Special Theory of Relativity are both expressed mathematically and are still considered theories even though they have been verified to give correct results and their predictions have come true. Newton's law of gravity has been discredited at subatomic level and it gives less accurate measurements of movements of Heavenly bodies than the General Theory of Relativity. The word 'law' just remains as a tradition. There isn't any co-relation between law and mathematical expression. There are even biological laws such as All life form is based on Genes. All life forms has hydrocarbons, nucleic acids..
Anyway how's your prep?