• nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    Young Earth Creationism for instance

    No, not really. They can and will claim that any evidence you present was created by God some 6,000 years ago. If you assume a creator (God in this case) that can create anything for any reson, their is no way to prove that the world was not created 6,000 years ago.

    Fossils? God created them in rocks 6,000 years ago. Radioisotope dating? created that way. 20,000 year old archeological site? created that way.

    Of course the same aguement holds for any creation date and method. I could claim that the world was created last tuesday, or even last second and there would be no way to disprove me. The boltzman brain is the most absurd continuation of this argument.

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      9 months ago

      But that doesn’t make the claim itself not falsifiable. They just “prove” it’s true with bullshit. And the fact that it has absolutely been proven false means it’s falsifiable.

      This is where I’ve found most issues with idiots championing such idiocy. They don’t understand the topics they try to argue.