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How do you explain the principal of "you cannot prove a negative" to someone that is very weak at abstractions like this? (lemmy.world)

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago

Similar to the argument Intelligent Design (anti evolutionists) use. They always point to fossil gaps and say "Well, what happened there?" You have no control over what gets fossilized and where you can find them and there will always be a gap somewhere. "Well there is a gap on Tuesday, 67,000,000 BC!" There is no possible way to fill in every imaginable gap with physical evidence vs seeing patterns and development across those gaps.