
Originally Posted by
Apopohis Reject
Furthermore; I expect that I am on reasonably safe (if not hallowed) ground, to make note that NOT all 'educated in physics, astronomy, or cosmology' scientists, accept what your dedicated 'pesky scientists' might sell at a lovingly discounted price of just $99.00 per jar - being yet; an unproven theory.
Cheers
A.R
I'm quite indifferent to being booted off the forum for rude behaviour, but you seem big enough and ugly enough to take some straight talking.
Describing something as an unproven theory displays a fundamental and troubling ignorance of the principles of science and the scientific method.
1. You cannot prove a theory. Theories are never proven. Only the uneducated and the ignorant believe that theories can be proven. I'm offering you release from your ignorance and a slice of an education.
2. You can disprove a theory. This is one of the things scientists try to do. They set up experiments with, lets say, two expected results. If one occurs in agreement with the theory, great. If the other occurs the theory is disproved. End of theory, at least in its original form.
3. You can confirm a theory. If in the example above the experiment produces a result that matches expectation this tends to confirm the theory. If ten thousand experiments, by a thousand researchers, investigating the theory from scores of perspectives all produce consistent results, then we have confirmed the theory.
4. The Big Bang theory is one of the most confirmed theories around.
5. You emboldened the word theory, suggesting it was somehow less secure than say a fact, or a Law. It was almost as if you had said "It is only a theory." The only people I know who use that terminology consistently are ignorant and uneducated creationists. I don't think you are one of them, so I hope you won't be using the emboldening again.