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pinky0926 posted...

*hypothesis

And no, because it has already happened. This is discussing about it happening even more.

Thank you.

I am happy you immediately corrected the other poster that confused the colloquial use of theory with the rigorous methodology to which a scientific peer review process is applied in order to establish a scientific theory which is the intermediary step between forming a hypothesis and establishing a law.

Not to go off on too much of a tangent, but this is the sort of word game that grifters and religious people use to confuse the general public on matters of science and how we come to understand the universe.

I would bet the person you replied to genuinely thinks a scientific theory is "just an educated guess" like a detective's hunch... and that's because there are moneyed and entrenched interests that benefit from this scientific illiteracy and the outrage to be generated by politicizing science.