Has a scientific theory ever been proven to be false?

Even after being totally accepted?Has a scientific theory ever been proven to be false?
Yes. It was thought that hay created mice. It was thought that the world was flat. It was thought that man could not fly. It was thought that the moon would never see the footfall of man. Science changes as new information is discovered.Has a scientific theory ever been proven to be false?
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for the most part they are still theories except for the one's that have been discarded





Superseded scientific theories


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A superseded, or obsolete, scientific theory is a scientific theory that was once commonly accepted, but that is no longer considered the most complete description of reality by a mainstream scientific consensus; or a falsifiable theory which has been shown to be false. This label does not cover protoscientific or fringe science theories with limited support in the scientific community, nor does it describe theories that were never widely accepted. Some theories which were only supported under specific political authorities, like Lysenkoism, may also be described as obsolete or superseded.





In some cases, a theory or idea is found to be baseless and is simply discarded: for example, the phlogiston theory was entirely replaced by the quite different concept of energy and related laws. In other cases, an existing theory is replaced by a new theory which retains elements of the earlier theory; in these cases, the older theory is often still useful because it provides a description that is ';good enough'; for many purposes, is more easily understood than the complete theory, and may lead to simpler calculations. An example of this is the use of Newtonian physics, which differs from the currently accepted relativistic physics by a factor which is negligibly small at velocities much lower than that of light. Newtonian physics is so satisfactory for most purposes that many secondary educational systems teach it, but not the ';correct'; relativity. Another case is the theory that the earth is approximately flat; while clearly wrong for long distances, viewing a landscape as flat is still sufficient for most local maps and surveying.





Karl Popper suggested that a theory should be considered scientific if and only if it can in principle be falsified by experiment; any idea not susceptible to falsification does not belong to science.
Of course. Nothing in science is considered absolute because any time a new piece of information can come along disproving everything we know.





Best example could be how the whole world believed the Earth was flat or the center of the universe.





Currently we believe the Sun is the center, but it may actually not be. Could be a binary star system with a brown dwarf. (this has been theorized to explain the offset solar drift and various other anomalies within our planet's travel along with an obvious pattern to our Earth's history of cataclysmic disaster.)





If you're interested enough and have 45 minutes to an hour to spare I have a video link to the astrology professor's lesson who theorized this and even named the potential brown dwarf. In it he explains it very thoroughly. It's quite interesting.








http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERy-MTfgu鈥?/a>
Yes, the tale of little red riding hood disproved the Bible.
I don't think any scientific theory is ever truly ';totally accepted';, but yes I am sure some have been proven false because science is ever changing as technology gets better and humans are able to better understand life.
Newton's particle theory of light was eventually supplanted by Huygens wave theory.
Yes, Evolution has been proven to be false according to the bible.
Science is always changing their views!