David Kipping
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And yet, so it has, I call it unbounded explanatory capability.
You can explain absolutely fucking everything.
It's God of the gaps, quite literally.
Whenever you see something odd, you can just inject your God to explain that.
And yet at the same time, on the other side of the coin, it also has unbounded avoidance capacity.
Because you could say to me,
Look, I saw a UFO at this site on Monday, on Tuesday, and on Wednesday.
So come Thursday and we'll see it together because it's happening every day.
And I come with you, I don't see it.
Okay, well, I guess it changed its mind.
That doesn't disprove what you saw.
And similarly, people have said, we've surveyed the surface of Mars.
We don't see any life on it.
I can't disprove there's life on Mars.
There could be life underneath a rock that we just haven't turned over yet.
You can't prove a negative.
So they could always it could always be there.