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I'm not sure what I did was amusing. I am asking for help debunking because I can only find catholic resources talking about it.
I'd like to see what skeptics have to say but I can't find anything. Hence why I'm asking for assistance.
Why would I ask another Catholic source if my problem is I can't find a non-catholic source?
Wait is catholic gpt a real thing? Lol it is humanity is fucked.
We are skeptics. We are telling you. It's all bullshit. It doesn't even come from the Catholic church, it comes from folks who make up stories to try and convince others their religion is real.
Apparently it was a mold that false positived as blood
It wasn’t a false positive.
The people running the test/making the claim didn’t know that the tests could produce positive results from Bacterial antigens, or detect DNA samples.
If I had a test that tests for Lego bricks, and then I hold up a sack and say “look, This bag is all 2x4 bricks!”, and then point to the test as proof. Well, no. There’s more kinds of legos than just 2x4 bricks.
That doesn’t make the test wrong. It makes the results misunderstood (or intentionally misconstrued.)
If the test is saying mold is a piece of a dude's heart, then the test is definitely wrong
Lets try it another way.
if I have a test that identifies if something is a NUMBER, that test identifies whether or not something is a NUMBER.
So if I submit [ABCDE} for a test, it would be a negative result- that is not a number. If I submit [12345] for testing that would be a positive result- it is a number.
make sense so far?
Now, someone is taking the result that 12345 is a number, and saying "AHAH, we've found '1337'!".
That is not how those tests work. 12345 is a number, as 1337 is a number, so both would yield positive results. if one were trying to find 1337, and using my test that identifies numbers, my test isn't faulty. They're using the wrong test.
The question you need to ask is, are they using the wrong test just because they're that fucking stupid, or are they using the wrong test because they know the right test will yield a negative result?
either way, the person you are talking to is assuming you're too stupid to understand the difference.
You do understand that there is no difference between 'blood from a heart' and, say, 'blood from a spleen' or even 'blood from an erect penis'. There's a reason it's called the "circulatory" system... It... circulates.