(June 11, 2015 at 12:08 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: A theory is a model that can be tested and falsified. Flat assertions about supernatural activity that cannot be investigated are not a theory, and it's not reasonable to believe in something whose mere possibility cannot even be determined.
Not all theories can be tested and falsified. (Big Bang, Evolution, Gravitation, and M-Theory are all such theories).
"A theory can be normative (or prescriptive),[1] meaning a postulation about what ought to be. It provides "goals, norms, and standards".[2] A theory can be a body of knowledge, which may or may not be associated with particular explanatory models. To theorize is to develop this body of knowledge.[3]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory
