On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:50:03 -0500, Les Cargill wrote:

This makes very little sense. A theory is a very humble thing. All it
takes is one demonstrable experiment against it and it vanishes.

True - what it's actually a theory. Unfortunately, many, MANY people use
the word "theory" to describe any old notion that cannot, even in
principle, be falsified. Such "theories" are immune to experiment or
observation. They sound nice - they make you feel all warm and fuzzy, or
they maybe are exciting (the world's going to end again, this time on
December 12, 2012, that sort of thing). Of course, that one's
falsifiable.

Not so the ones that describe "unknown" energies, "alien" technologies,
"forgotten" civilizations that left no traces, and so on. In order to
explain the profound lack of evidence, many turn to conspiracy theories
("they" have suppressed all the evidence), which again makes their
notions incapable of being falsified.



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