The Problem with Christians

[Goosebump]

So theories and laws aren't the same. There can't be a "law" of evolution even with the observable evidence of evolving bacteria and viruses etc? There could be a law of flu virus always evolving to fucks up our noses. But that wouldn't be the same as a theory? Am I remotely in the ball park of understanding this?

There are many laws contained within the Theory of Evolution. One of the most common is the law known as Natural Selection (co-discovered by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace), which states that the gene-sets within a population which are more "successful" (in that they survive to produce children and grandchildren at a higher survival rate than their fellows within the population) will increase the percentage of those genes found within the population, and thus the population will evolve in the "direction" of those genes. Another is the law of genetic inheritance, which states that offspring will mainly (along with "edits" provided by new mutations occurring with each generation) contain the DNA of their ancestors/parents, but will not be duplicates or blends of those parents, as Gregor Mendel discovered with his pea plants.

Got it! So within the Theory are laws, which can be scientifically proven over and over again thus leading to their obvious validity. But the Theory contains parts that aren't yet laws. So the only way to call the Theory of Evolution a Law would be if everyone of it's components that add up to it were laws themselves?

I nailed it didn't I, rare moments! Or I didn't and i'm a sad banana.