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by Brendinooo 20 days ago
>So this is, at best, an argument that scientific models are incomplete (which no one would disagree with) but not that scientific models are invalid, or that the supernatural is real.

One could imagine God parting a sea with scientific mechanisms we know nothing about.

> Claims alone don't prove anything

You can be convicted for murder "beyond a reasonable doubt" on claims alone.

>First, demonstrate that two dimensional people exist, otherwise it's a nonsense question.

Okay, I respect that. Thought of a better one later.

How would you explain what it means to be human to an ant? How would you get it to understand thermodynamics or whatever?

I dunno, it just seems like your overall thrust here is that humanity came out of the ooze through natural selection with everything that it needs to understand the mysteries of the universe. If we cannot see, touch, taste, smell, hear, or think it, either directly or through our instruments, it is impossible, and therefore it cannot happen.