Originally Posted by antlers
Originally Posted by nighthawk
And of course falsely uses "theory" as a synonym for "fact," a common ploy.
Like the ‘theory of gravity’ or the ‘theory of orbital mechanics’ or the ‘theory of nuclear fission’.

Speaking of orbital mechanics, that theory failed to match observation and we had to invent dark matter to hold galaxies together. The facts of the matter are still a tossup as per definition nobody can directly observe dark matter.

The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.