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This is a joke from p33-34 of my book Plato and a Platapus Walk Into a Bar.
This joke is based of the idea that in order for a theory to be true, there must be some circmstance that would prove it false. Like in orde for the idea that God is real to be absolutly true it must be possible for there to be a way to disprove it, since there is no real way to disprove God you cannot assume that it is real. Since there is no way to disprove some ideas you cannot just asume they are true, this is shown in a joke from my book.

Two men are making breakfast. As one is buttering the toast, he says, "Did you ever notice that if you drop a piece of toast, it always lands butter side down?" The second guy says, "No, I bet it just seems that way because it's so unpleasent to clean up the mess when it lands butter side down. I bet it lands butter side up just as often." The first guy says, "Oh, yeah? Watch this." He drops the toast to the floor, where it lands butter side up. The second gu says, "See, I told you." The first guy says, "OH, I see what happened. I buttered the wrong side!?

From this joke you can see that there is no possible way to disprove his theory because he has decided that instead of landing butter side up the toast was simple buttered on the wrong side. So the buttered side did end up down in the end. Another example of this is when it comes to the idea that aliens are real. Some say "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" which means that just because you cannot prove they are real doesnt mean that they cant be real, so unless you are able to check the entire universe for aliens and dont find any then and only then will the believers be convinced otherwise.