Science Poker

In poker you can stay in the game even if you have lousy cards by continuing raising the bet.

As long as your bet is not called, you are in the game and have not lost. 

In science this strategy is practiced a lot: If your theory cannot explain anything and is questioned because it is absurd and contradictory and does not fit with observations, raise the bet to an even more absurd and contradictory theory claiming that it might explain something, and so on....Some examples:

Physics: 

• If you cannot explain what an atom is, claim you work on a theory for protons and electrons.
• If you cannot explain what protons and electrons are, claim you work on a theory for quarks.
• If you cannot explain what quarks are, claim you work on string theory.
• If you cannot explain what strings is, claim you work on superstring theory.. 
• If you cannot explain what superstrings are, claim you work on ???

Astronomy:

• If you cannot explain how the Solar system was created, work on a theory for galaxies.
• If you cannot explain what a galaxy is, work on a theory for the Universe.
• If you cannot explain what the Universe is, work on a theory for a Multiverse.
• If you cannot explain what a Multiverse is, work on a theory for ???

Mechanics:

• If you cannot explain why an airplane can fly, claim that you work on a boundary layer theory which can explain why an airplane can fly.
• If the boundary layer theory does not explain why an airplane can fly, claim that the boundary layer is not thin enough because the viscosity is not small enough.
• If you still cannot explain, claim that making the viscosity even smaller will give an explanation.
• If it still does not work, claim that it will if only the viscosity is made small enough...

Climate Science: 

• If you cannot explain variations in global temperature, claim that you work on a theory explaining global warming by carbondoxide.
• If carbondioxide does not explain anything, claim that global warming comes from methane.
• If methane does not explain anything, claim that global warming comes from human metabolism or ???

But there is always an upper limit to the bet you can make, and it seems as if this upper limit is near in the above examples ???