Cecil Moore wrote in news:ZLGci.19671$C96.7397
@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net:

Mike Coslo wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
Jim, I'm annoyed at people who assert that scientific
theories are never wrong and are simply a subset of
something that is more correct.

Those who do are definitely not using the scientific method, are
they?

Well, let's take an example. There was a theory that
the smallest independent organism couldn't be smaller
than ~1 um. Using the scientific method, no organism
smaller than that was discovered for decades.
Now we have apparently discovered an independent
organism 50 times smaller than the theory allowed.
Was the theory right or wrong?

I believe that the hypothesis was wrong. minimum size for a life form
doesn't make it quite as far as a theory to me. Based on what we knew t
the time, it wasn't a bad guess.

- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -

Mike Coslo wrote:

...
I believe that the hypothesis was wrong. minimum size for a life form
doesn't make it quite as far as a theory to me. Based on what we knew t
the time, it wasn't a bad guess.

- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -

A theory is only a guess which appears to have substance and proof
behind it ... too often, this proof and substance evaporates ...

JS