[Woahhs]

please define "create a bigger mess."

[Dimensio]

please define "create a bigger mess."

Well if you have one theory as the foundation for a number of other theores and as the frame of reference for calculations, tests or predictions and that one theory is falsified, you suddenly have a lot of broken theories, bad figures and inherently inaccurate predictions (or, if they are accurate, you suddenly need a new way to explain them).