Comment Re:Uh (Score 1) 488
Sorry that I wasn't precise here, I was trying to present the spirit of what it takes for a statement to go from hypothesis to theory in science practice. Also, none of the definitions you provide were really in the realm of what scientific theory represents, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory for a solid explanation.
Also, I was trying to convey some of the difference between theory from hypothesis (observation) and from conjecture (swag), which often seems to be the source of much of creationist argument and it's difference from science.