Changes

* Assuming the theory is true, we can logically follow it through to a specific and inevitable outcome, a prediction, which becomes the hypothesis. In order for the hypothesis to be considered scientific it must be tested

* Assuming the theory is true, we can logically follow it through to a specific and inevitable outcome, a prediction, which becomes the hypothesis. In order for the hypothesis to be considered scientific it must be tested

* The hypothesis is repeatedly tested empirically.

* The hypothesis is repeatedly tested empirically.

* If the observations prove the hypothesis thent the theory can, provisionally, be accepted (note, we cannot say that it is now 'fact', nor that is has been 'proven')

* If the observations prove the hypothesis then the theory can, provisionally, be accepted (note, we cannot say that it is now 'fact', nor that is has been 'proven')

* If the observations do falsify the hypothesis then we reject it in its current form.

* If the observations do show that the hypothesis is false then we reject it in its current form.

* The theory, or at least parts of it, can then be modified, or a new theory proposed, part of a continuing process..

* The theory, or at least parts of it, can then be modified, or a new theory proposed, part of a continuing process..