>It's like saying Australia didn't really exist when we couldn't observe it (or see any effects from it reach us). This is a straw man, and I think you know th

>It's like saying Australia didn't really exist when we couldn't observe it (or see any effects from it reach us). This is a straw man, and I think you know that. It's more like saying Atlantis doesn't exist, and, well, to the best of our knowledge - it doesn't. I'd be happy to re-evaluate upon receiving evidence that Atlantis may have existed, just as QM physicists should be happy to re-evaluate when sub-Planck-scale phenomena can possibly be observed using a theory which is also consistent with the rest of our observations of the world. Oh and an even better analogy than Atlantis - it's like someone saying Australia didn't really exist when we couldn't observe it, and claiming they would prove it by sailing from Chile to Africa without encountering any large land masses. So no, he's not making any weird philosophical claim at all.