How do you deal with a religious family?

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No, that's how to "prove" a theory.

A theory cannot be proven.

Again, you're incorrect. An example is the Darwinism theory that evolution is driven by DNA mutations - there are competing theories to this, and when that theory was first invented it had no direct solid evidence whatsoever for it. If it gets disproved it will still be a valid theory, just one that has been disproved.

It did have solid evidence for it - ever heard of Darwin's Finches? And if its disproven, it is not a valid theory.

The ability to develop theories involving the use of little direct evidence is a very important skill.

And developing a theory with no credible evidence whatsoever is impossible.

So I completely disagree with you trying to say that they're "hypothesises", the term is synonymous with theory but the meaning is slightly different.

The difference being that a theory needs credible evidence and a hypothesis doesn't.

In any case, there is valid evidence for the theory that Jesus is resurrected. It's only the quality of said valid evidence that is disputable, not its existence in the first place.

If the validity of the evidence is disputable - as you have argued it is - then there is no valid evidence for the hypothesis of Jesus' resurrection.

But not direct evidence, that's my point. They're using I guess you could say rules about what they've learned and theorised about other things to apply it to new situations and develop theoretical proposals for where humans might have been at a certain time.

That constitutes direct evidence.

No one's making up evidence, no one's making up facts.

The bible is.

It's perfectly relevant. 1. if those groups had not been treated as being valid minority groups then solutions to the issue would never have been developed and enacted on - case in point the USA did not have anywhere near the success of containing the HIV outbreak as we did in the late 80's, but they had exactly the same opportunity. 2. It's a very clear example of acknowledgement of those groups and their ability to tackle such an important health issue when given the ability/support to do so.

Are you arguing that denying minority groups their rights is the right thing because it makes them better?