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A hypothesis is not just an educated guess, that is as incorrect as the people you are criticising.
A hypothesis is a testable explanation positing a relationship between various observable phenomena.
A theory is a hypothesis that has been subject to repeatable attempts to discredit ("falsify") it, has survived, and been provisionally accepted as true by most of the community.
Luminiferous Aether was a theory that stood for a long time, as was Newtonian Gravity and Galen's Theory of Four Humours.
Plate Tectonics, Heliocentrism, Circulation Of The Blood, Germ Theory, and Radioactivity were outlandish crank theories when proposed, and remained so until the more established theories were all disproven, or at least found to be less useful in making testable predictions.
A hypothesis is a testable explanation positing a relationship between various observable phenomena.
A theory is a hypothesis that has been subject to repeatable attempts to discredit ("falsify") it, has survived, and been provisionally accepted as true by most of the community.
Luminiferous Aether was a theory that stood for a long time, as was Newtonian Gravity and Galen's Theory of Four Humours.
Plate Tectonics, Heliocentrism, Circulation Of The Blood, Germ Theory, and Radioactivity were outlandish crank theories when proposed, and remained so until the more established theories were all disproven, or at least found to be less useful in making testable predictions.