Otherwise they would be called, well 'facts'.
To claim otherwise is dishonest.
Sorry to have to disagree with you. On this point, I think Heinlein said it best.
Piling up facts is not science--science is facts-and-theories. Facts alone have limited use and lack meaning: a valid theory organizes them into far greater usefulness.
A powerful theory not only embraces old facts and new but also discloses unsuspected facts [Heinlein 1980:480-481].
Sorry to have to disagree with you.
On this point, I think it is obvious that theories can and must change to fit the facts, not the other way around. This makes the theory subservient to the facts.
Of course, evolution turns this on its head and that may be why you prefer theories over facts.