[longshadow]

In other words, of what use is a bizarrely complicated, borderline-magical system which is designed to affirm one particular religion's creation myth and to as far as possible be irrefutable by observation?

If it is not capable of refutation, it is not falsifiable.

If it is not falsifiable, it isn't a scientific theory.

If it isn't a scientific theory, why are we even discussing it?

[PatrickHenry]

If it isn't a scientific theory, why are we even discussing it?

Because, vile unbeliever, if you don't accept it, you will not enter Paradise.
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