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That's nonsense. There are lots of parts of science where someone could reasonably say "I believe it's this, but I'll change my mind if future science changes my mind".

An example of where this is useful is around Neanderthals. "Did they have language?", "Did they have burial with ceremony?" are questions where it's fine to have belief on the current evidence because there's not enough data to know the answer.



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