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In science the word 'truth' is used very sparingly to reflect the experimental nature of science. Scientists do not rush to brand something 'true' even if it can describe and predict a natural phenomenon excellently, such as the case of the atomic theory. Before more evidence is gathered and a better theory proposed, the currently theory is accepted as the relative 'truth' in the field and respected as such. Scientific theories of the day are paradigms of human understanding of the world. Being 'just a theory' does not preclude it from becoming the eventual truth when human knowledge of the universe is complete.

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