Thread:BunsenH/@comment-25755405-20161018025800/@comment-25755405-20161020025431

BunsenH wrote: BunsenH wrote: Super29392 wrote: what do you think about this theory BunsenH? I think it is a possible creation myth, but with no evidence to support it. Super, it's possible that that came across as mean, and if so, I apologize. I've had a bad couple of days at work, and your message pushed one of my buttons, regarding the word "theory".

In science, the word "theory" is used to describe an idea that comes from significant evidence and which can be used to predict events or observations. An example which comes up frequently is Darwin's "Theory of Evolution". Some people are inclined to dismiss it out of hand because it's "just a theory", using the word in its more common sense of "idea". That's a thing that informed people find... quite irritating. To put it mildly. One may disagree with a theory based on its evidence or on how it is interpreted, but one should not just because of differing uses of language.

Obviously, you were using the word "theory" in its informal sense.

Somewhere, at some time, I have seen the word theory used as bad as this page, so call it a hypthesis then. Also, I think this thread should be moved to general disscussion, don't you think?