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What is the Falsification for Abiogenesis and Theory of Evolution?

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And when that evidence is presented, the interlocutor needs to accept it.
Am I right?
Another non sequitur.

If you claim the moon is made of green cheese, and I ask for evidence for this, and your response is "My evidence is that it is NOT made of blue cheese!", should I accept it?
If I HAVE to do something, then its only fair that they HAVE to do something in return. Yes?
Sure - the evidence will be evaluated for relevance, veracity, etc., and if necessary rejected or accepted.

What is a "kind"?
 
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Extraordinary claims demand extraoridinary evidence.

You have no data at all to support the assertion that Noah lived for over 600 years, you dont even have any evidence or data supporting he ever existed.

Um we have a historical document attesting his existence.
 
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Genesis 5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

The bible claim so yes, but its very modern to think this is a literal claim.

Modern ideas of "truth" is just that, modern.
 
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And when that evidence is presented, the interlocutor needs to accept it.
Am I right?

If I HAVE to do something, then its only fair that they HAVE to do something in return. Yes?

It has to be considered, it can be accepted or rejected thereafter.

There just isn't any evidence that exists for 1,000 year old people in any scientific form. We don't observe such things for example.
 
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I would expect people who assert (contra the bible) that Noah never existed, provide evidence to back their claim because...

we need to remember that it is the claimant that has the responsibility to demonstrate evidence for the claim.
 
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I would expect people who assert (contra the bible) that Noah never existed, provide evidence to back their claim because...

Thats not how assertions work.

The one making a positive claim is the one that has to back up the assertion with facts and data.
 
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I would expect people who assert (contra the bible) that Noah never existed, provide evidence to back their claim because...
Why? What is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. So far you have provided us with no evidence whatever for the Flood and the character Noah, except for the fact that the Earth is 2/3 covered with water.
 
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You should learn basic debate.
Apparently, in Apologetics, one need only make an assertion to have the Vacation Bible School captives take is as truth.
 
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Yes, we DO. (caps lock for the win.)

Hey, this gainsaying stuff is fun. :)

Alas, thats not how debates work.
The Noah character appears to be a recent version of an older set of characters from Mesopotamian mythology.
Meanwhile, I am still waiting for a year, or at least a decade.
 
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I would expect people who assert (contra the bible) that Noah never existed, provide evidence to back their claim because...

Most people don't have any conflict over the question of if someone existed in the past. Like Abraham Lincoln for example. Because the idea of someone existing in the past, isn't really controversial. The controversial aspects are those that tend to go against what we might intuitively thing. Such as the idea that a person could live a thousand years, or the idea that this person was on a boat during a flood that covered mt everest.

And in these instances, I'd say that it's fair to suggest that there is evidence to the contrary.
 
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