I came across this fantastic graphic that explains what a scientific theory is. Many people seem to think a theory is not much more than a guess. Hopefully this will help.

Excellent.

All models are wrong but some are useful.

Supermodels are super-useful?

I was sad because they dismissed the pentacle with the pentagram in it. I think that assumption warrants further scientific study based on the fact that it has more pointy thingies.

Is that helpful?

The Devil you say!

Now how to explain a hypothesis...

Hypotheses non fingo.

Diagram of a hypotheses.