re: Had a Conversation with a Flat Earth Believer Today

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I don’t personally share that opinion; but tend to see falsifiability as a barrier where purely philosophic inquiries begin and scientific inquiries end, in some respects.

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I agree with that.

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but even within the realms of logic, I believe Godel’s incompleteness theorems in mathematics reveals at least one potential flaw in your opinion. If it is possible that true statements exist for which no proof can ever be produced, I’d probably argue this implies there exist plausible concepts for which no proof could ever exist.

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I think of plausibility as a subjective estimate of probability. One could even assign a value to it as with probability. And while FE has a value of zero, I would say that the plausibility of literal heaven is undefined since no aspect of it can be measured or observed.

So I'll say that my initial statement of "more plausible" was not accurate because a value can't be compared to an undefined value.