Patrick Reany wrote:
If science education had done its job right, you'd all be able to
correctly define the following terms: (physical) theory, (physical)
law, (physical) hypothesis, (physical) model, scientific method. So,
those of you that are so smug that you KNOW what the hell science is
really all about can define these terms for us here and now.

This is minutae. The world breaks down into two classes. Fact and
hypothesis. Facts become known to us via perception. Hypotheses are
generated by thinking in order to organize known facts and predict facts
not yet known.

Sniggling and higgling over definitions rarely clarifies any essential
difficulties and rarely answers questions.

Bob Kolker