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    WHAT ABOUT YETIS?!

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    Rhinos are related to horses. This is commonly believed to be the reason for the myth of the unicorn.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aurey View Post
    WHAT ABOUT YETIS?!
    Yetis don't exist, stop being silly. Big Foot is just a hairy mountain man without any social skills.

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    That explains why BoB collected so much hair all those years ago.

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    You make a claim, you provide proof. You don't claim something and tell someone to disprove you. The fallacy is that someone's inability to disprove a positive claim does not automatically make that claim true.

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    you IDIOTS....

    The burdon of proof ALWAYS lies with the least loudest one.

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    It's easy to prove something is true. I can prove that there are four lights, for example.

    It's nigh impossible to prove something isn't true, barring obvious things like proving that there are not five lights (because there are four, and four is not equal to five).

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    Maybe one of those lights is camouflaged

    They see me rolling. They hating, patrolling.
    Trying to catch me riding dirty.


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    You forget that God wrote the Bible and he said the Bible is true. QED

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peegee View Post
    You forget that God wrote the Bible and he said the Bible is true. QED
    no he never

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    Things are true when they are proven by numerous test subjects dying, we do what we must to prove things, because we can.

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    So we need to kill a bunch of rhinos to prove unicorns don't exist?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vermachtnis View Post
    So we need to kill a bunch of rhinos to prove unicorns don't exist?
    UNICORNS EXIST You horrid person, don't hurt my dreams

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    Of course unicorns exist. If they didn't, then how did we make robot versions of them?

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    This argument sums up both M-theory (string theory) and Loop quantum gravity debates, which have been happening all around the world in physics since about 1930. They can't prove anything, and can only say: "Well, my theory is more consistent with what we know. You haven't disproved it, so it might be true!"

    Unlike general relativity, which has been proven, although some may believe otherwise.


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