RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 30, 2021 at 8:26 pm
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2021 at 8:57 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(March 30, 2021 at 7:51 pm)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: Aren't 'Laws' more a subset of ''Theories'?
Laws and theories stem from two separate traditions, or perspectives, on science. One group thinks science should describe the universe, the other that it should explain the universe. The search for the "laws of nature" is a bit outdated, mostly because newer fields like biology have little use for them. Theories have, however, been used to explain scientific laws in the past; and I suppose that in this sense laws can be a subset of theories. But in general they are siblings of each other.