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spolitry • today at 1:03 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

I'm not Sean Carroll. I'm interested in logical arguments for why I should be convinced that something completely impossible to ever test, not even in theory, is correct.


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mitthrowaway2 • today at 4:12 AM

How do you test whether the dinosaurs once existed as living animals, vs as fossils that were embedded in the Earth when the universe began 6000 years ago?

Because I only believe one of these propositions, even though I can't imagine any test that would discriminate between the two.