Its concepts are woolly and untestable, yet are regarded as unassailable axioms.
它的概念模糊而不可测试,但却被认为是公理而无懈可击。
For sometime this theory was considered untestable, largely because there was no sufficiently precise chronology of the ice ages with which the orbital variations could be matched.
有一段时间,这一理论被认为是不可检验的,主要是因为没有足够精确的冰河时代的年表与轨道的变化相匹配。
When the logic for picking apart the records was kept with the test, it was untestable.