mandelson wrote:Deep Sea Isopod wrote:just coz you havent seen a massive death star dont mean they dont exist. are you trying to say that no one cant make no actual death stars.
The celestial Teapot analogy springs to mind.

whats that then? do you reckon some teacup is gonna prove my third evidence wrong? id love to hear that one.
Philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote:If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.
In other words, because we can't disprove the Death Star you can claim it's true? But Bertrand Russell is claiming that a china teapot is orbitting the sun. So if you can't disprove it, it must be true, right?
Wrong. You are making the claim, so the onus is on you to prove your hypothesis. This is the point of the celestial teapot analogy.
So you must now prove the Death Star exists.
In yer own time.
