The Richard Webster Medal
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There have recently been moves afoot among evolutionary biologists to stop speaking of ‘Darwin’s theory of evolution’ and, instead, to call it ‘Darwin’s law of evolution’. This is to stymie creationists who like to say ‘evolution is only a theory’. Now I am all in favour of stymieing creationists, but I think that this idea is misguided. The underlying assumption is that the use of the word ‘Law’ is best explained by thinking of it as sitting on a scale of certainty such that Law >> Theory > Hypothesis >> Wild bath-time speculation. I am not convinced that this is true.
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