obzon wrote:

"Earl Evleth" wrote in message

I have no religious orientation in science

Oh yes you have.
You conveniently overlooked your global warming religion-substitute!!

AGW is not a theory, that would require solid scientific PROOF. It is
merely a rather poor HYPOTHESIS.

" In common usage in the 21st century, a hypothesis refers to a
provisional idea whose merit requires evaluation. For proper evaluation,
the framer of a hypothesis needs to define specifics in operational
terms. A hypothesis requires more work by the researcher in order to
either confirm or disprove it. In due course, a confirmed hypothesis may
become part of a theory or occasionally may grow to become a theory
itself. Normally, scientific hypotheses have the form of a mathematical
model. Sometimes, but not always, one can also formulate them as
existential statements, stating that some particular instance of the
phenomenon under examination has some characteristic and causal
explanations, which have the general form of universal statements,
stating that every instance of the phenomenon has a particular
characteristic.

In the United States of America, teachers of science in primary schools
have often simplified the meaning of the term "hypothesis" by describing
a hypothesis as "an educated guess". "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothesis

Graham