Causes are connected with effects, but this is because our theories connect them, not because the world is held together by cosmic glue…The notions behind ‘the cause x’ and ‘the effect y’ are intelligible only against a pattern of theory…”
Hanson
However, while we might be able to find data consistent with a theoretical model, it does not prove that theory or its underlying causal assumptions
Other theoretical models may fit as well or better
It has just not been falsified but merely confirmed
“All models are wrong, but some are useful”
Box