[Nursie]

--edit-- I can't help feeling we've wandered off-piste here.

The point I was trying to make is that the origin of a hypothesis is not really important, just that before it is accepted as true or false it is tested.

--edit-- this wasn't actually an edit so much as a reply. Oops!

[crististm]

Yes, the origin of hypothesis is irrelevant. I was using hypothesis origin only as a means to prove that scientific method does not apply to all things.