“Good scientists know this, but people on the school boards usually do not.”
I guess this is why in the Dover case the judge, who was a Bush appointee, determined that the school board was not only ignorant of science, that intelligent design was back door religion, and that several school board members also committed perjury. Also, can you tell me what experiments have been designed and conducted to prove intelligent design might be a fact?
The point of my post is this: theories are not facts. Scientists do not prove theories. They propose them as working models. You can collect all the experimental data you want. It doesn't prove a theory. Experiments do not prove theories. If you don't understand that, you don't understand the nature of science or mathematics.
Have you every taken a physics lab in college? One thing you will learn very quickly is that if you write up your lab report and say that the experimental data you collected proved the theory you were testing, you will most certainly not get an A.
As for scientists, the majority of them simply ignore what theory actually means. As for judges, there is nothing infallible about a judges ruling.