Our building blocks are pieces of experimental evidence that are linked into coherent models of the universe. (scientificamerican.com)
As I've said elsewhere, there is no physically coherent model of climate change that is linear, magic jump, then linear again. (realclimate.org)
Correlation supersedes causation, and science can advance even without coherent models, unified theories, or really any mechanistic explanation at all. (sciencemag.org)