How can you tell if you just ignore and deny it all of fear for loosing your scientific face?
Did you read the rest of what i said? The *key* is being able to make testable statements that are verified by observations. Any theory that cannot make such statements is worthless.
That is how you tell. You see if it makes testable claims. if it does not, it is worthless. Then you see if the testable claims it makes are born out by actual observations Again, if it is not, then it is worthless.
From your profile signature:
A little learning is a dangerous thing
Well, it certainly seems correct in your own case.
Which is why I stay out of debates about things I don't know much about. It's a good policy. But I *do* know about cosmology and astrophysics, which is the topic of these discussions.
Remember that *your* ideas are the ones that avoid trying to make specific conclusions and when they do, those conclusions are shown to be wrong by observations.
For example, the fact that things still fall in a vacuum shows that air pressure is NOT why things fall. Avoiding that fact by saying that taking the air out is unnatural only shows that you don't grasp how to test ideas rigorously.