frogprince
Nuts; I posted at 1:09, had to depart immediately afterward, and just discovered that most of my post had evaporated; I suspect that I blew the code for ending the italics.

Yes you did but your message was hiding there in the page source -

I wouldn't really think it objectionable to refer to a hypothesis as an "educated guess", if all parties involved realize that that is said within the context of the whole scientific process, the "guess" being stated in testable/disprovable terms and in fact subjected to experiment and review. But commitment to a process that has long proven itself viable and useful in dealing with real-life material matters is not "religion".