Why are theorys considered fact?

Question

Now adays in such a scientific community, scientists have promoted themselfs to almost a prophet. So why are scientist unabled to be questioned, and why is nothing Fact? why are their theorys considered absolute truth?

Answer 1

Take the theory of relativity. So far it has worked just fine. The A-bomb blew up. Sunlight gets here in the right amount of time. Still, we are not sure all of it can hold true so it stays a theory.
Evolution, theory of: All the facts show that it is true. That we evolved from a lower life form. Every new bit of evidence shows that it works. Still, the devil, if you will, may have pulled the reality of creationism over our eyes. To fool us into being sinners. All evidence shows that the earth much older than 6011 years old.
Creationism is a theory, but it sees to fly in the face of all the evidence.
Big Bang Theory--It works, except there are several sub-theories that have yet to finalize how we (matter in this Universe) will end. They have names like the Big Chill, or the modified Big Chill, or the Big Rip.
Most scientists have I have met are more than willing to discuss their ideas and views. You just have to know the right questions to ask.

Answer 2

Scientists never claim to have found absolute truth. They do work within a certain methodological framework (naturalism) and proceed by a very careful rigorous logical method. Theories unify and explain a large number of facts. This notion that "evolution is a theory, not a fact" is mistaken because it is not on a continuum like that. Facts are not "more certain" than theories. Facts are the stuff theories strive to make sense of.

Philosophers of science such as Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn have amply demonstrated that scientific theories are largely based on their pragmatic success.. the ability to make predictions and explain observable facts. But we should not fall into the trap of thinking that our worldview is so certain that it is not subject to revision in light of additional evidence. Sometimes two or more theories can both do a pretty decent job of uniting and explaining observed facts. So which one do we go with? How do we decide. It ends up being on pragmatic grounds. One is more "useful." So it's not so much that we have found out "The Truth" about the world or about the universe - Truth with a capital T - as we have found better theories.. better in the sense that they have been useful for us.

Answer 3

Scientific theories are not consider "absolute truth" by anyone who operates scientifically. It only seems that way to people who don't stop to understand science before making such a statement.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, let me say...

One of the basic principles of the Scientific Method is that all things that we take to be scientifically true must be able to be disproved.

And as has been said, scientists are typically willing to share their research and their theories with you. In fact, they publish to that end. :)

Answer 4

Theories become facts as a result of the assimilation of evidence, from which one makes a prudential judgement concerning what is the best possible explanation for a given phenomena. Questioning a given phenomena as a means for discerning its essential properties is one of the standards of scientific inquiry. It may not be that scientists are refusing to be questioned, but that they do not accept some conclusions as conforming to the methodology of scientific inquiry.

Science is not a discipline that seeks to define "absolute truth", this is the realm of philosophy and theology. If scientists makes these claims, they are venturing out of their field of inquiry and risking making catagory errors. Science is a descriptive discipline which has is its primary focus material reality. Ontology and teleology are the province of the philosopher and the theologians. This is not to say that some scientists might draw ontological and teleological implications in terms from their inquiry, but to to do so takes their theorizing beyond the empirical reality, and therefore, outside the proper scope of their discipline.

Answer 5

No, the theories are not considered absolute truth. It is, I believe, the most acceptable form of truth when there isn’t any yet. Theories have been questioned many times and in questioning existing theories, new theories have been made. Scientists are not prophets they are also just like us, philosophers, trying to find the truth in many aspects of life and living.

Answer 6

In Psychology (which i now the scientific community prob considers a pseudo-science but anyway...) you can never prove anything because people are so varied no matter what you establish someone will always disprove it, we can confirm a hypothesis but cannot say that it is fact.

Answer 7

It is because you can only formulate theories by relying on factual events..

Answer 8

theorys are only considered facts when they can not be proven wrong.
facts dont even need to be proven right to be a fact, they must simply not be proven wrong.

it is like our existence. we can not prove that we truly do exist, but we can not prove that we do not exist either.

Answer 9

Ego ....for one

Answer 10

Because what they "think" is true, is what they "believe" is true. Even if it is false!