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Originally Posted by Jobe
Not really. Any honest scientist will admit to conjecture. We don't fully know what's up in the universe. I suspect in the end we will all slap our foreheads and say, "Oh yeah. So that was the thing!"
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A scientific theory is not something cooked up by one person or based on conjecture. It is an explanation based on evidence from multiple disciplines based on all available evidence. It is peer reviewed at every stage, it is falsifiable, and has passed a gauntlet of challenges from scientists across multiple disciplines.
A hypothesis might contain conjecture. They are very different things.
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Originally Posted by Jobe
Theory is theory. Nothing more and nothing less. Definitive is what we seek. Theory is conjecture as we struggle towards the final answer.
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This is simply not the definition of a scientific theory. It is vey different than the colloquial use of the word
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