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The notion that anything can happen, is not only wrong, but undermines the whole concept of science. If anything can happen, then there is no basis for scientific theories and principles. Knowing that only certain things can happen is what differentiates science from religious faith. I would say Popper's idea of 'falsification' in science is the main thing that differentiates science from religion. I have never heard of a religious zealot trying to see if he could disprove his own doctrine! "Existence" is the unfalsifiable doctrine of "science." Scientific falsification is more like the rolling confirmation bias of said existence: "As the new and deep from-the-intersubjective inside collective perspective of always being in the past, ontological species have properly necessarily been just joking." It is not that only certain things can happen, but that they (B) are what they (A) are. Any explanation why and how that is, no matter how much the tragically twisted existentialist bullshit of the "why" and "how" they "happen," in and as the holiness of the paradox or incompleteness of "existence," is A-is-B. Science very rarely refers to 'existence', and is definitely not a doctrine. When it does refer to 'existence', it is actually in the realm of philosophy Existence is the once removed and hidden ground of zealotry. Existence is what the science (empirical knowledge) is about. No, science does not refer to 'existence'. Yet it is empiricism, i.e., the belief that a formalized system of our experience of existence is imperative. It's even narrower than that. Empiricism is the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. The senses are physical, so such knowledge is about "the physical world," which by definition exists. But what is "happening now" with newspeak instead of news, is the belief that sensory experience should formally extend to the spiritual realm of the inside across all things, where "the psyche" aids "the mind" in the oraculous grokking of the extra-physical. Existence nevertheless.
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