> The scientific method says: make a theory, then test it against observation. That's... not the scientific method I learned. The one I learned starts with "Ob

> The scientific method says: make a theory, then test it against observation. That's... not the scientific method I learned. The one I learned starts with "Observe a phenomenon". Of course, then you develop a hypothesis and formalize the observation process so that conclusions can be more reliably drawn from it (an experiment), but you're still observing something first.