No... We observe with telescopes that the universe is expanding. We don't know why, so we call the mysterious force dark energy. It's just a name for something

No... We observe with telescopes that the universe is expanding. We don't know why, so we call the mysterious force dark energy. It's just a name for something that we are objectively observing. (Also this has nothing to do with dark matter, that unrelated to this discussion and you're just getting the names conflated.)