Question

What do both the theory of evolution and the cell theory have in common as scientific theories?

Both have strong scientific support.

Both were once laws that had to be tested.

Both describe our expectations of the natural world.

Both are soon to become scientific laws.

Answer 1

@mrdoldum @Zale101 @superhelp101

Answer 2

i going to go with A

Answer 3

@laurisve So:

Levels of strength of our confidence in an explanation:

hypothesis: a proposed explanation for a observed feature (like when it was first proposed that there is a link between smoking and lung cancer).
*accepted* hypothesis: we think the hypothesis is correct based on experiments, but we have not tested some aspects that need to be tested before.....

Theory: an explanation that currently is able to explain nearly all observations that it is meant to explain, has had a long and thorough process of replicable and reliable experiments that supported the hypothesis

Law: something so well established that it is thought to be 100% correct, such as the speed of light in a vacuum.

There is no way to know how long it will take an hypothesis to go from an hypothesis to a law to a theory, or if it ever will. Usually theories and laws that are proven incorrect are never restarted as slightly new hypotheses.

Answer 4

so it is A? @mrdoldum

Answer 5

@laurisve Yes.

Answer 6

@laurisve Though I guess a strong argument could be made that C is correct as well. However, I do not think that is the spirit of the question.

Still, when I teach and find questions with two correct answers, even if I did not mean there to be, I still give people the points. After all, both to explain how we think the natural world developed and currently functions.

Answer 7

Should be "both *do*" not "both to".

Answer 8

but wich one is the best? that would be the next step right?

Answer 9

@laurisve I believe A is the best.

Answer 10

thanks