By simple analogy. You can prove that there are white crows by finding a single white crow, but to prove that there are no white crows you must conduct an exhaustive search of every corner of the earth and never find a single one and somehow be absolutely certain that you didn’t miss one somewhere. The latter is impossible because you can’t look everywhere at the same time, which is the only way to be sure you didn’t miss something.
As such all you can say is there probably aren’t any white crows because we have lots of experience seeing crows and there has been no evidence of one yet.
spoiler
Plenty of crows with albinism exist! Do a quick search for images - albino crow.
Similar to the argument Intelligent Design (anti evolutionists) use. They always point to fossil gaps and say “Well, what happened there?” You have no control over what gets fossilized and where you can find them and there will always be a gap somewhere. “Well there is a gap on Tuesday, 67,000,000 BC!” There is no possible way to fill in every imaginable gap with physical evidence vs seeing patterns and development across those gaps.
By simple analogy. You can prove that there are white crows by finding a single white crow, but to prove that there are no white crows you must conduct an exhaustive search of every corner of the earth and never find a single one and somehow be absolutely certain that you didn’t miss one somewhere. The latter is impossible because you can’t look everywhere at the same time, which is the only way to be sure you didn’t miss something.
spoiler
Plenty of crows with albinism exist! Do a quick search for images -
albino crow.https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/rare-albino-crow-rescued-in-north-vancouver-3126073
It’s just an example man.
Similar to the argument Intelligent Design (anti evolutionists) use. They always point to fossil gaps and say “Well, what happened there?” You have no control over what gets fossilized and where you can find them and there will always be a gap somewhere. “Well there is a gap on Tuesday, 67,000,000 BC!” There is no possible way to fill in every imaginable gap with physical evidence vs seeing patterns and development across those gaps.
This is a very good analogy!
Although to be pedantic, there are white crows; there was one living in my neighborhood some years back.
It’s just an example. Mentally edit it to polka-dotted hippopotamuses if it makes ya happy. ;)