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falayyou01 posted...

yes - but if you had to stake your life on it and it was a multiple choice question which one would you choose?

Well infinite things that have never been observed and cannot be disproved would be my choices, so I'd randomly pick one and then be mad that I was forced into certain death by a ridiculous question.

This is just fundamentally against how I operate as a person. It's completely illogical to believe in unfalsifiable claims until proven they don't exist. That means you would have to assume literally anything that could possibly be imagined is real until proven wrong, but nothing could be proven wrong because they're claims that are impossible to prove. Anyone who actually thought like that would go insane because they would completely lose any sense of reality.

That's not how science works. That's not how arguments work. That's not how human interaction works. No one who asks you to prove them wrong is ever actually interested in being proven wrong. That's not how things work. Even if you engaged in the thought exercise, there is no evidence that they would accept, because the question is not asked in good faith.

We can prove that an egg dropped off a building will break into pieces. We cannot prove that an egg dropped off a building won't one day freeze in mid air and hatch into a full-grown dragon. Does that mean we should live with the conscious thought that dropping eggs on the ground might start defying the laws of nature one day? Is it arrogant to expect physics to behave until we have hard proof that they have stopped behaving? Should we be skeptical of gravity?