Interestingly, Torah is advocating a high stake experiment to determine a navi – be right or die. At the same time, as mentioned here, same moschihists had one opinion before Rebbe was niftar and another after. Al pi reb Karl popper, a theory is a statement that can be, in thought experiment, be proven wrong. A position that can be modified to be true for any possible event is not a theory. So, this approach seems to contradict the posuk
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