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Problems with being an Atheist (or Evolutionist)

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nator
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10-14-2010 7:53 PM 		Reply to: Message 245 by Rrhain
10-02-2010 2:21 AM

>It's how science works: You can never prove something to be true. You can only prove something to be false.
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Falsification is not the same as proving a negative, though.
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You can disprove a positive claim that something exists, but you can't prove the claim of the nonexistence of something.
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