It's one thing of course to present sufficiently persuasive evidence
that my dinner is on the table for me to come down and eat it, and
quite another to *prove* that the table, my dinner and myself exist
and are in the posited relationship to one another.
Some folks it seems would swear blind that the tasty meal they've just
eaten wasn't dinner, wasn't on the table, and wasn't eaten by them.
"Quit fooling around and bring me my *real* dinner".
Making a rigorous distinction between "proof" and "persuasive
demonstration" is itself no simple matter. I consider the truth of the
theory of evolution to have been persuasively demonstrated. Tell me
what would constitute an adequate proof of it or any competing theory,
and we'll see what can be done in the way of producing something that
meets that specification.
Dominic
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