Possible and impossible

[pocaracas]

The fact that they think it's possibility is even an issue betrays a lack of confidence on their part.

And it also undermines the idea of how "obvious" it is meant to be.

I've stopped using the word "possible" with regard to unfalsifiable/unknowable things. I've started using "consistent" instead. The thing is, their commonly proposed models are not even consistent with observed reality.

The trouble is that those models to carry a certain internal consistency, even if not fully "consistent with observed reality".
They're ambiguous enough for people to fail to grasp how reality does not match up to them, and thus keep them as potentially valid.

Indoctrination and/or some basic reasoning fallacies lead to regarding that "potential" as a certainty... or near enough as to make no practical difference... a belief.

A model bred by ignorance, refined by wishful thinking... it saddens me that so many people fall for it...