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by grkvlt 3133 days ago
To prove the earth is not 10k years old, you could simply prove that it is 4.5G years old, though. The inability to prove a negative is only valid for binary issues, this seems binary but is actually a statement about a value on a continuum - the age of the earth.

EDIT - obviously in the context of last-thursdayism being used in the article, this doesn't work...