I went to the NSTA link to find you left off the following sentence. "Nice progression, and not what happens. To understand how scientists proceed in their investigations, it will help to understand each term individually. What’s a hypothesis, what’s a theory, and what’s a law?"
If you download the full article, he summarises by stating specifically that theories do not become Laws !
So looks like you need to revise your current view of this fairly muddy subject.
