Into the Night
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No such proof. Science has no proofs. It is an open functional system. Attempted proof by circular argument (fundamentalism).Again so what? Truth will win out in the end. Look how long it took to prove that bacteria caused stomach ulcers,
They don't. Both volcanoes and earthquakes occur far away from any plate edge.or that plate tectonics explained volcanoes and earthquakes.
This was a valid falsification of that theory. That was a theory of science that was falsified. It is now no longer science.It took the Michelson-Morley experiment to disprove the luminiferous aether theory
Again, a valid falsification of a theory of science.and The phlogiston theory was discredited by Antoine Lavoisier finally between 1770 and 1790 having been believed for hundreds of years.
Science has no proofs. It is an open functional system. It is just a set of falsifiable theories. No theory is ever proven True. Science does not use supporting evidence at all. It only uses conflicting evidence.
The test of a theory of science to try to falsify it must be specific, definable, and produce a specific result. As long as a theory withstands such tests against it (called the test of the null hypothesis), the theory is automatically part of science until it is falsified. It is this test against the null hypothesis that makes a theory of science something more than a simple circular argument (or argument of faith).
There is no 'procedure' or 'method'. There is no voting bloc. There is no one 'approving' or 'blessing theories' in any form. A theory of science must be falsifiable. That is the only requirement.
Non-scientific theories certainly do exist. They are not falsifiable. They remain the circular arguments they started as, leaving them as theories based on faith, and faith alone. Such, for example, is the Theory of Creation, the Theory of Abiogenesis, the Theory of Evolution. The Theory of the Big Bang, the Theory of the Continuum. None of these are theories of science. They are instead religions.
Science has no theories about past unobserved events. They are not falsifiable.
No theory can exist that is based on meaningless buzzwords. Thus 'global warming', 'pollution', 'climate change', are not theories. They are just a meaningless junk as 'assault rifle', 'temperature trend', etc. No theory can exist based on a buzzword, since it creates a void argument. All theories, scientific ones or not, must pass the internal consistency check. All theories of science must pass the external consistency check. No theory of science may conflict with any other theory of science. One or both must be falsified.