JohnnyFlotsam
Premium Member
The problem is that to many people think a scientific theory is all fact.
Perhaps, but that list would not include scientists who, as a group, would never make such a bold assertion. Now that same group will tell you, has told you, over and over, that when there is overwhelming reproducible evidence supporting a theory the matter is effectively settled, for only a fool would act as if a thing were not so in the face of that evidence. Notice I did not say that no one should question that evidence. Good science demands such pursuit, but only a fool would bet his children's future, for example, on the chance that such a pursuit might, against all odds, turn up something new. Such a bet is not "a difference of opinion". It is the very definition of stupidity.
and anyone can come up with a theory that is deferent and uses the same data/facts.
No. They can not. Again, you misunderstand the definition of a scientific theory.