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PepisMaximus 0 points ago +1 / -1

2 + 2 = 4, this can be proven

It can't actually.

Math isn't science. It's something else entirely.

You can prove 2+2=4 if and only if we agree certain first principles are true, these principles are called axioms and they cannot be proven or disproved.

Uraniuam 238 turns into lead through a chain of several decay products", I've never claimed this can't be tested and proven. Do you understand that?

Do you understand admitting that this can be tested an proven is admitted radiological dating works?

You've tested and proven it, great, now how does this tell you how old the earth is?

Because the ratio of uranium to lead will indicate exactly the age of that rock.

This is provable by the invariant nature of radioactive decay, and the chain of decay products from uranim to lead.

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PepisMaximus 0 points ago +1 / -1

You're being disingenuous.

You don't know what disingenuous means.

This is the more than the third time you have falsely judged me a liar, you must be a really devout christian.

If I take 2 jelly beans, and I add 2 more jelly beans, I have 4 jelly beans right?

If and only if we accept axioms that define concepts like "one" and "add" and "equals".

These are not provable things.

Math does not follow the scientific method. It follows self-consistent logical rules that require you accept starting axioms which are unfalsifiable.