Re: God
By: echicken to Atari X on Sat Jan 09 2010 05:27 pm
> Yes, the burden of proof is on both sides.
I disagree. The burden of proof is the the one(s) who is/are making the claim.
I'll use the widely used Bertrand Russell's teapot as an example:
"If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot
revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to
disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too
small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go
on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable
presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be
thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot
were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and
instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its
existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the
attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an
earlier time."
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