Replying to a message of Steve Kemp to Ed Hulett:

 SK> With PURE SCIENCE...prove a negative!

 SK> You can't!

 EH>> If no one could 
 EH>> prove a negative, you'd still believe the world was flat.

 SK> You falsely assume that the idea that "the world is flat" is a
 SK> negative. It's a positive! And it is proven false!

 SK> To prove a negative you would have to prove something without evidence 
 SK> for same. 

 SK> It's an impossible LOOP! Get it?

 SK> Of course not.

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. 

--- FleetStreet 1.19+