There was this debate i was reading about, the old fight between creationists and rational people. The former believe that evolution cannot be true, as creation was an act of God,a pure miracle rather than a series of explainable incidents occurring one after the other with a scientific explaination for each of them. Where biologists can provide actual physical evidences of the proofs of evolution, creationists simply quote sacriptures or provide that infallible logic that YOU CANNOT DISPROVE A MIRACLE.
Itis this precise form of reason thati wish to discuss, the dilemma of proving the absence or rather disproving the supposition of presence. Now it is considerably easy to do this in more technical matters. Simplest being to prove whether a room has air in it. If a candle burns, it has air, if not it doesnt have air. Science , thus rarely comes across this dilemma. No, where this dilemma actually finds ground is in Sociology and Philosophy. More on it tomorrow!
this is very different!
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