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Words of truth 40 comments
guest · 9 years ago
I'd just like to point out that while the word "theory" has a connotation of uncertainty in everyday language, this isn't the case in scientific language. In science a theory is an idea that is impossible to confirm as absolutely true (such as gravity or evolution), but has been verified so many times that it's reasonable to accept it as fact. A hypothesis, on the other hand, is an idea that is still being verified and can be doubted.
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