Ozzy, in regard to:
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I think that most of the general public are aware that when something is presented in the media as a "theory", it is an explanation of phenomena that is accepted by a large body of experts as the best available explanation at this point in time.
However, many are not aware of the difference between a hypothesis and a theory. I could hypothesize that moon is made of swiss cheese based on the observable holes, but unless a large body of experts agree it would never be given the status of "theory". A non-scientific publication might call it the "swiss cheese theory (SCT)", but they would be wrong.
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What sets the big bang theory apart from the swiss cheese theory? I mean, say we didn't have space ships and couldn't travel to the moon, would I have any way of knowing if the swiss cheese theory was wrong?