| Let me try to see if I understand the Russell's Teapot argument.
A person says that a perfectly normal, average, every day and well-known thing is doing something that makes perfect sense if the velocity and distance are accurate. As long as that person doesn't try to convince anyone else that they are right, there is no way to prove them wrong.
I agree with that. What they are saying is based on their own mind, and you can't really force someone to change their mind.
If that person were to try to say that it is impossible to prove them wrong they would be speaking nonsense.
I agree with that. If you just want to keep it to an disc shaped orbit (restricting us to area measurements) then the space between Earth and Mars is finite (1 x 10^24 square feet). A teapot is just about 1 square foot in size, so you're looking at a finite possibility of 1 in 10^24 chance of finding it. Large, but finite.
The third and final part of the quote says that if there is documentation going back thousands of years about this teapot and it was taught in school and taught to children then not believing in the existence of the teapot means you are possibly crazy.
I disagree with that. There is one incredibly simple reason why. Everyone knows what a teapot is, what it does, what it is capable of, and how it works. There are no mysteries to the teapot.
I understand how the Russell's Teapot argument is supposed to appear valid but no one is trying to say that the teapot created the universe or had a son who walked on water.
In all honesty, if you put a gun to my head and told me to choose which one I believe in first, God or Orbiting Teapot, I'd choose the little teapot.
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