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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I'll make this easier on you. The well-documented history of how humans invented Santa provides the falsification you keep bleating about. [/quote]

No, it doesn't. "no empirical test can establish that it is false".  What empirical test can prove there is no Santa?

I agree it is ridiculous to believe he is real, by the way, because there is no evidence he is.  But the claim was he is provably false.  That has not been shown, here or anywhere, by any empirical test.

[quote]You can't see it because you've gone down a narrow semantic road that apparently rules out seeing anything in the way of documented historical proof. [/quote]

This "narrow semantic road ", as you call it, is exactly how [b]you [/b]come to believe [b]everything else you believe except for your god[/b].
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You need to take a class in rhetoric. Or you need to find a better atheist rag than the one that pointed you to this particular argument. I tend to think you're stretching the original argument way beyond what you read, though. Because by your logic, if proof positive (historical evidence of the creation of Santa) isn't good enough, then *nothing* is unfalsifiable including the table I'm writing on or my understanding that you're going to read this email. Heck, we can even turn this on its head and say atheism (as the belief there is no God) is also unfalsifiable. [/quote]

Atheism is the lack of a belief in a god.  Some atheists claim there is no god, and when they do you should ask them for proof of their claim.  They won't be able to, because it is unfalsifiable.

The fact that we know men wrote and created some of the Santa legend does NOT prove he does not exist.  As I mentioned earlier, and that you seem to ignore, it is unfalsifiable, you can't prove he does not exist.  If you have such a bee in your bonnet about Santa just replace him with Zeus, he's just as useful for the point, and just as unfalsifiable.

Pointing out that your link claims that a man existed (St. Nicholas) and that legend of miracles was applied to him by men writing after his death.  Sound familiar?[/quote]

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