Evolution: a red herring?

Please, please tell me the name of your supervsior... he needs to be shot for his own good!Seriously though, how can you claim to be a scientist... and a chemist!!!!... and spout crap like this? Do you know what a LAW is? I guess that I as a relativist have spent my academic life working on nonsense as I have been breaking Newton's Law of Gravitation? Not to mention all of Newton's Laws of Motion... and in my work on quantum gravity, I guess I'm also guilty of breaking all three Thermodynamic Laws. Oh dear...

My apologies for appearing (and admittedly being ) so insulting... BUT, I hold scientists and postdocs to a much higher standard than a casual observer at EvC. And you are being unbelievably simplistic for someone with your credentials. A LAW is essentially an overarching principle that helps someone not intimately connected with a field get a grasp of what is going on.Do you think I give a damn about ANY of Newton's Laws? Do you think those working on existing biological systems that seem to exist on a continuum that straddles our usual definition of life give a damn about this Biogenetic Law? We have enough trouble defining life at the moment so how the hell can we have a Biogenetic Law that means anything sensible other than something to tell school kids?Tell me, if you believe in an absolute Biogenetic Law, perhaps you would tell me what absolute definition of life you are using?