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Basically I think it would be easiest to look at it from this perspective.

There are theories and facts. Facts are truths that can be proven through experience or observation and evaluation. And theories basically are created because a phenomenon exists without an explanation and any verifiable, concrete evidence or proof, or explanation. So some strive to compile a rational strand of proposed occurences in order to try to understand how this phenomenon can exist! It is a deconstruction of something without any facts in an attempt to find a logical explanation for its existence or occurance; but if verifiable evidence or proof cannot be found to support their theory- it cannot be proven to become fact... so it remains just a theory .

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