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Flat Earth is trivially falsifiable. Beliefs about the origins of the universe are not so it's not really the same thing.
by zaphar 4y ago
Flat Earth is trivially falsifiable. Beliefs about the origins of the universe are not so it's not really the same thing.
- standardUser 4y agoEvolution doesn't say anything about the origin of the universe. It explains how populations of living organisms change over generations.
- zaphar 4y agoDisbelief in Evolution as the origin of life is rooted in a belief about the origins of the universe that is fundamentally impossible to falsify either way. In fact you can believe evolution exists and also believe that it is not the ultimate origin of life without in any way disagreeing with established scientific fact.
- _dain_ 4y ago>Flat Earth is trivially falsifiable. It's falsifiable, but not trivially. For example, due to atmospheric refraction we can see some distance around the curvature of the Earth. A common Flat Earth "demonstration" / "gotcha" is to show examples of photographs taken of distant objects, that shouldn't be visible because they'd be below the horizon (checkmate, Globalists). The optics phenomena are complicated, and most people have to take it on faith that the physicists aren't lying. And if you already think there's a global conspiracy to deny the Flat Earth, that's a non-starter. There are a lot of things like this where it's actually a bit more complicated -- some second-order effect that isn't satisfactorily explainable with high school physics. And they have them all memorized as talking points. So a naive debater can get caught unawares and look foolish.