[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cobra_snake:
[B] It also might be of interest if you post your own theory so that TrueCreation or I could see exactly what your criterion is for a scientific theory. [/QUOTE]
Here is the link to a very good definition of science, which contains an explanation about what makes a theory a scientific one:
http://www.skepdic.com/science.html
"The logical and empirical methods of science
There is no single scientific method. Some of the methods of science
involve logic, e.g., drawing inferences or deductions from hypotheses,
or thinking out the logical implications of causal relationships in terms of necessary or sufficient conditions. Some of the methods are empirical, such as making observations, designing controlled experiments, or designing instruments to use in collecting data.
Scientific methods are impersonal. Thus, whatever one scientist is able to do qua scientist, any other scientist should be able to duplicate. When a person claims to measure or observe something by some purely subjective method, which others cannot duplicate, that person is not doing science. When scientists cannot duplicate the work of another scientist that is a clear sign that the scientist has erred either in design, methodology, observation, calculation, or calibration.
scientific facts and theories
Science does not assume it knows the truth about the empirical world a
priori. Science assumes it must discover its knowledge. Those who claim to know empirical truth a priori (such as so-called scientific
creationists) cannot be talking about scientific knowledge. Science
presupposes a regular order to nature and assumes there are underlying
principles according to which natural phenomena work. It assumes that
these principles or laws are relatively constant. But it does not assume that it can know a priori either what these principles are or what the actual order of any set of empirical phenomena is.
A scientific theory is a unified set of principles, knowledge, and
methods for explaining the behavior of some specified range of
empirical phenomena. Scientific theories attempt to understand the
world of observation and sense experience. They attempt to explain
how the natural world works.
A scientific theory must have some logical consequences we can test
against empirical facts by making predictions based on the theory. The
exact nature of the relationship of a scientific theory making predictions and being tested is something about which philosophers widely disagree, however (Kourany 1997)."
There is more at the site. Please read it.
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