Dark_wizzie
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A scientific theory is something quite different from a colloquial "theory". A scientific theory has an enormous weight of evidence behind it, and represents a self-consistent picture of how we think something behaves. It's far, far more than just idle speculation.
Scientists themselves use the word "theory" colloquially. They're contributing to the confusion themselves...