A scientific theory is an explanation of an aspect of the natural world that can be or that has been repeatedly tested and has corroborating evidence...

general theories in science and pre-scientific natural philosophy and natural history that have since been superseded by other scientific theories. Many...

and research. Theories can be scientific, falling within the realm of empirical and testable knowledge, or they may belong to non-scientific disciplines...

of a scientific theory, a validly reasoned, self-consistent model or framework for describing the behaviour of certain natural events. A theory typically...

abundant illustrations of pseudoscientific theories-monocausal theories of human behavior that were hailed as "scientific" – that have been applied with disastrous...

antirealism was conducted as powerful scientific theories extended beyond the realm of the observable. The term "scientific method" came into popular use in...

Scientific evidence is evidence that serves to either support or counter a scientific theory or hypothesis, although scientists also use evidence in other...

pp61-62 The Scientific Case Against Scientific Creationism, Jon P. Alston, p24 "What is Creationism?". 2 Peter 3:3–7 "Formless and Void: Gap Theory Creationism...

perceptions, and that verified scientific theories are at least approximately true descriptions of what is real. Scientific realists typically assert that...

of science and the general criteria for drawing the line between scientific theories and pseudoscientific beliefs, but there is widespread agreement "that...

In biology, cell theory is a scientific theory first formulated in the mid-nineteenth century, that living organisms are made up of cells, that they are...

rise to biodiversity at every level of biological organisation. The scientific theory of evolution by natural selection was conceived independently by two...

progress in science in which scientific progress was viewed as "development-by-accumulation" of accepted facts and theories. Kuhn argued for an episodic...

existence of God, presented by its proponents as "an evidence-based scientific theory about life's origins". Proponents claim that "certain features of...

Scientific study involves scientific theory, scientific method, scientific models, experiments and physical situations. It may refer to: Scientific method...

the difference between science and non-science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the ultimate purpose and meaning of science as a human endeavour...

The heroic theory of invention and scientific development is the view that the principal authors of inventions and scientific discoveries are unique heroic...

a theory, and that falsification alone did not result in scientific change or an undermining of scientific consensus. He proposed that scientific consensus...

by experiment to be true, it becomes a scientific theory. In colloquial usage, the words "hypothesis" and "theory" are often used interchangeably, but this...

considered a fundamental scientific concept. In a joint presentation with Alfred Russel Wallace, he introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern...

vaccine-preventable diseases. Other effects of conspiracy theories include reduced trust in scientific evidence, radicalization and ideological reinforcement...

than a scientific hypothesis, as it cannot be empirically falsified. In recent years, there have been proponents and skeptics of multiverse theories within...

The theory-theory (or 'theory theory') is a scientific theory relating to the human development of understanding about the outside world. This theory asserts...

The caloric theory is an obsolete scientific theory that heat consists of a self-repellent fluid called "caloric" that flows from hotter bodies to colder...

Atomic theory is the scientific theory that matter is composed of particles called atoms. The definition of the word "atom" has changed over the years...

Logic of Scientific Discovery) in 1934. Here, he criticised psychologism, naturalism, inductivism, and logical positivism, and put forth his theory of potential...

Structure of Scientific Revolutions emphasizes that different theoretical frameworks—such as Einstein's theory of relativity and Newton's theory of gravity...

the concept of an established scientific theory. Although often used in the context of fringe science, fringe theories have been discussed in fields of...

successful scientific theory reveals nothing known either true or false about nature's unobservable objects, properties or processes. Scientific theory is merely...

an increasing attention to scientific modelling in fields such as science education, philosophy of science, systems theory, and knowledge visualization...