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Originally Posted by LadyMischief
Einstein never claimed to be perfect. He put forward theories, some proven right over time, some a little off, etc. Theory isn't THE WAY THINGS ARE, it's just a theory.
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You are woefully ignorant about science madam. A theory in science is not a "hunch" or a "guess" it is an explanation of the data. Unlike religion, science is not dogmatic. This is called falsifiability.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory
In science, a theory is a mathematical description, a logical explanation, a verified hypothesis, or a proven model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation. It follows from this that for scientists "theory" and "fact" do not necessarily stand in opposition. For example, it is a fact that an apple dropped on earth has been observed to fall towards the center of the planet, and the theory which explains why the apple behaves so is the current theory of gravitation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
In science and the philosophy of science, falsifiability is the logical property of empirical statements, related to contingency and defeasibility, that they must admit of logical counterexamples. In essence, for an assertion to be falsifiable, it must be logically possible to make an observation or do a physical experiment that would show the assertion to be false. This is in contrast to tautologies, formal and mathematical statements that are universally true as a logical consequence of the definitions and axioms they are based on..