beginning of The Universe theories

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The only generally accepted requirement for scientific theory is that it is falsifiable.

I have heard better descriptions of scientific theory from uneducated hillbilly YECs.

A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. Such fact-supported theories are not "guesses" but reliable accounts of the real world. The theory of biological evolution is more than "just a theory." It is as factual an explanation of the universe as the atomic theory of matter or the germ theory of disease. Our understanding of gravity is still a work in progress. But the phenomenon of gravity, like evolution, is an accepted fact.

http://www.aaas.org/news/press_room/evol...anda.shtml