Can't prove a negetive

Michael medvend had the man who wrote "A letter to a christian Nation" on his program today. First time I heard his program in who knows how long... its been a while since I drove up to L.A. at this time of day. (Yay crazy shopping trips!) anyways, Medved was getting up set at the comparison between 16% of Americans beleiving that government executed 9/11 and 22% of Americans beleiving that Jesus will come back in the next 50 years.

Jesus comming back, and Torah M'sinai, can't be proved false.

However, the idea that 9/11 was commited by Arab extermeists can be proved false.

There is a difference between not being able to prove a negetive in general, and not being able to prove specific negetives. Something to think about.



Lastly, somehow, the debate on the radio reminded of a speach I once heard by a visiting rabbi. When people say that G'd creating a false age of the earth is deceptive, he argued that it is not.

When you imagine a person saying "Abra cadabra, I will make a Giant Elm Tree out of nothing... and *POOF* there is a tree. If you cut down that tree, how many rings do you expect to find? 0? 1? 30? 2,000? 15.3 billion?

Granted nobody expects to find 15.3 billion, but what about the sudden creation of a rock? What does your mind's (I)eye show you? Granted again, that this thought experiment does not answer all the many thousands of questions that is asked about the age of the universe, however it was a reminder to me, that if we think about our "fancifull delusions" of a magician creating a tree out of nothing, our mind normally envisions a Full Tree that is atleast 30 years old, and not a seed with the age of 0.