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Originally Posted by Rockstar
I dont understand your argument because I dont believe anyone here said 'theory' is truth or law, it is just a theory. I just said I was open to all possibilities and I do agree that without an imagination we would still be beliving the sun revolved around the earth.
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A scientific theory is confined to things for which evidence exists. No evidence exists for multi-dimensional universes, cyclical big bang/big crunch cycles, parallel universes with different basic constants and properties, alternate time streams, alien life, alien intelligence, or on-time mail delivery.
Therefore, nothing said about any of them merits the distinction of being called a theory. Theories are explanations of a collection of evidence, not speculation based on imaginative fantasies. Elevating imaginative fantasies to the status of theory would be the end of science.
Just to give you one example of why these fantasies don't deserve to be called theories, a theory, in order to be called such, must be falsifiable. If you posit the theory that the force of gravity between two objects is related to the sum of the masses and the distance of their centers of mass, then merely showing one example where that is not true is enough to falsify that theory. The theory was built on evidence and it will die by evidence.
But there is no evidence of the list above, multi-dimensional universes, cyclical big bang/big crunch cycles, parallel universes with different basic constants and properties, alternate time streams, alien life, alien intelligence, or on-time mail delivery. Therefore they are not falsifiable. Therefore they are not theories. Well, maybe on-time mail delivery can be falsified.
