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Originally Posted by aceventura3
From your friendly neighborhood sceintific moron:
Who is responsible for coining the phrase "Big Bang Theory"? Wasn't me, I think it one of those highly educated scientific folks.
Can a hypothesis be a theory?
Can a hypothesis become a theory? If so, does it take a bite from a radioactive spider?
Can a theory be a hypothesis?
What come first the theory or hypothesis? Who gets to fertilize it?
Can theory be formed from emperical evidence, rather than experimental evidence?
Whats the difference between a guess from a Phd. and a guess from a janitor? A janitors work is published on bathroom walls, a Phd's is best used in bathroom stalls.  |
Ok. Anyways..
The word "theory" is applicable to all ideas that are testable by experimentation. They never become more than theories, just become well supported or unsupported theories. The Big Bang is a well supported theory.
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Enter into the common speak mode though, and "theory" becomes some sort of idea that someone just kinda had, ya know? As compares to a fact, which is proven idea..
So, if something is just, like, a theory, well I guess it doesn't mean much... huh.
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So, when people start adding the word "theory" to stuff blatantly, it is usually an attempt to undermine a scientifically supported idea by using a word that while is technically correct to use, the majority of people have an incorrect understanding of. When people say "evolution is theory, not a fact" they are trying to undermine it thusly.
That is what the Bush appointee was doing, among other things such as censoring members of NASA from making public statements about global warming (theory).
Blah. Good riddance to him!
Someone should really make a webpage combining all the different stories of bush appointees turning out to be screw ups, combining all the different statements made by bush that ended up being false (all the iraq WMDs, the various lines in State of the Union Addresses), combining the picture of how our economy has been doing, etc, etc. Placing all the different pieces together into one unified story of ineptness and deceit would be really a service to this country.