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      2 years ago

      From the languages I know, that comma completely changes the meaning of the phrase. But I’ve seen some examples in German using some very weird commas, so maybe it’s a language thing?

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        So in German the phrase would go like “You prove, that I can’t fly” so I’m guessing the author omitted ‘that’ for brevity

        /end over analysis

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    Just nitpicking here: science can never prove anything.

    In the second panel the guy on the right acquires evidence that is consistent with the guy on the left having the ability to fly. The fact that he even asked for proof shows that he is not engaged in science here.

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    Religious people even made up a special word so they wouldn’t have to think of themselves as gullible.

    Faith

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        I never bought into presuppositionalism. You can act like you know something with zero confidence or even the ability to know what confidence is.

        A plant knows how to grow to light.

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        I like to think of science as conservation of faith, an attempt to explain as much as possible while having faith in as few initial postulates as possible.

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          That’s not faith. That’s just pragmatism. A set of models which predict the observed world with the fewest number of theories will be the most easily understood and the most easily extended. However seeking simplicity does not mean that there is a simple answer.