Full disclosure: I’m a biologist and I told myself I was going to stay out of this.
But I would like to point out that when scientists use the word “theory”, they mean something different than when people use it casually in conversation. In science a “theory” is a collection of descriptions of observations and rules that explain them. For example, there’s the theory of relativity. That theory is what makes a GPS work. So if you want to regard scientific theories as still being “just theories”, you should probably stick to using maps to get directions.
Full disclosure: I’m a biologist and I told myself I was going to stay out of this.
But I would like to point out that when scientists use the word “theory”, they mean something different than when people use it casually in conversation. In science a “theory” is a collection of descriptions of observations and rules that explain them. For example, there’s the theory of relativity. That theory is what makes a GPS work. So if you want to regard scientific theories as still being “just theories”, you should probably stick to using maps to get directions.