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""All the evidence we have point to these mechanisms and they work in this way" " That's pretty much how a scientific theory works, yeah. If the evidence doesn't point to it then we can't speak of a scientific theory. Scientific theories are, a lot of the time, just the best truth to something we can come up with at the moment. That's why we consider them to be facts a lot of the time.