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Pie
3 years ago
12

Why is the phrase "it's just a theory" misleading

Biology
1 answer:
Ne4ueva [31]3 years ago
4 0
As scientist- you are taught to question Everything. you make a hypothesis and gather data that either proves the hypothesis to be true or refutes your hypothesis.

a theory is a deliberately tested and studied hypothesis pointing to a collection of data that proves a hypothesis to be true. (or remain unrefuted)


a theory isn't some random idea not backed by data.
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