"You develop a "theory" then test it one way or another. "
That's simply wrong. A hypothesis is what you test one way or the other; a theory is what happens what that hypothesis has been tested repeatedly and widely accepted by scientists as true.
"A hypothesis is what you test one way or the other; a theory is what happens what that hypothesis has been tested repeatedly and widely accepted by scientists as true."
You don't say whether these repeated tests need to have proven anything.
Regarding evolution, they certainly haven't proven the creation of any new species.
So in order to go from hypothesis to theory, you need a wide acceptance of scientists, not actual proof. So there's a political element?