(September 12, 2014 at 8:11 am)Tonus Wrote:(September 11, 2014 at 10:37 pm)sswhateverlove Wrote: Most scientists would disagree with you. That's why their assertions are called "theories".Scientists do not cloak assertions as "theories" in order to promote them as truth. Scientists build theories using knowledge and understanding obtained by experimentation and research, ie: facts.
You don't seem to understand what a scientific theory is, or how it is different from facts, or how it uses facts, or the method by which a theory may be strengthen, weakened, or dismissed altogether as we learn more. You're going to find that you are talking past a lot of us if you're working from the premise that scientists can make any claim as long as they refer to it as a "theory" and push it on an unsuspecting public as fact.
A theory is a theory because scientists recognize that you can never know for certain that you controlled for all possible influences. All scientific evidence derived conclusions carry that as an implicit assumption. So, I'd say there is no "is". (Performative contradiction intended).
