Any high horse or pretentiousness is your projection. I was merely addressing you as an intellectual equal and a big boy, which I assume you are.
You cherry-picked your definition of "theory". Another one might be: " : a plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to explain phenomena", or, in my words, our best explanation given the currently known facts.
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Plausible or acceptable or best explanation is emphatically NOT mathematically
verifiable proof and defines the clear distinction between a Law (Motion, Gravity etc.)
and a Theory (Evolution, Relativity etc.) but I have identified the problem and it has
nothing to do w/science.
Rather its one of simple grammar; the meaning of words and is easily corrected w/a
Webster's Dictionary.
Anyway this door is now closed!