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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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Your argument is ridiculous. Have a nice day.[/quote]

Well, when you put it that way, with all those counterpoints, facts and citations, it is hard to argue.[/quote]
You've been provided counterpoints, facts, and citations and dismissed them. [/quote]

Did anyone actually prove that Santa/Zeus didn't exist? 
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Santa, yes -- he does not exist.  He is a child's supernatural being who only brings presents to Christian children at Christmas. Kids realize at about the age of 10 that there is no Santa, then later,  they play Santa for their own kids.

Zeus - no proof that he did or didn't exist, but no one believes in him anymore.  He's an Ancient Greek god.[/quote]

No. No one proved Santa does not exist.  You can't.[/quote]

Not empirical proof, perhaps, but solid reasoning.   Adults know that there is no Santa because they become Santa to their own children.  As has been pointed out, Ghosts are a better argument for the nonexistence of supernatural beings, because some adults believe in ghosts, despite the lack of evidence.[/quote]

This is such a red herring. There’s historical evidence for how Santa was created.

By this logic we could claim that atheists don’t exist (wait, didn’t someone write a book “I don’t believe in atheists”?). Sure, you guys pop up here all day every day (positive evidence exactly analogous to the historical evidence about Santa’s creation). But how does anybody know you’re actual atheists? Some have argued quite reasonably that your obsession with this forum reveals profound ambiguity in your relationship to faith. So, given we can’t prove you don’t exist, by your logic you guys are as questionable as Santa and Zeus. [/quote]

By this same logic, it could be claimed that Christians don't exist.  IOW, very poor logic.[/quote]

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