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You seem to have made the common layman's mistake of confusing "theory" with "hypothesis".
When a layman says "I have a theory", he means "this is my guess".
To a scientist, this is known as a "hypothesis". A theory is a hypothesis that has been tested against the known data and has:
1) Been shown to explain the data.
and
2) Make testable predictions about future observations.

In short, a theory is much more than a SWAG*

*Scientific Wild @$$ Guess

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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Kaptain K on 2002-05-30 00:10 ]</font>