Alex,
>>It is well explained. It always amazes me how most people do not understand the scientific meaning of "Theory" vs. the common usage, semantic meaning. A scientific Theory is the highest possible definition and outcome you can hope for.
By definition, even the most accepted/acceptable Theory can be disproven at any moment.
For example, the Theory of Relativity smashed Newton's Law of Gravitation that had been fully consistent and useful for quite a while, even though it was wrong.
Perhaps that is what people mean when they observe that something is "only" a theory? Consistent/accepted today, discredited tomorrow?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
