Comment by discreteevent

5 hours ago

It did but they were meaningless without a human intellect trying to make sense of them.

No, the theory comes from the authors knowledge, culture and inclinations, not from the fact.

Obviously the author has to do much work in selecting the correct bits from this baggage to get a structure that makes useful predictions, that is to say predictions that reproduces observable facts. But ultimately the theory comes from the author, not from the facts, it would be hard to imagine how one can come up with a theory that doesn't fit all the facts known to an author if the theory truly "emanated" from the facts in any sense strict enough to matter.