[keithnoizu]

True, but even if we were say 80% confident in each rebuttal being the true reason chained together the odds of those all being correct is pretty small. Although of course it could be due to alternative rebuttals being the correct ones.

At a certain point in time, not that we've reached it, it starts to look like the ptolemaic system, or luminiferous aether, where you keep tacking on exceptions or explanations to fit the data to your model instead of your model to the data.