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Re: Burden of Proof (Re: Atheist Billboard At Lincoln Tunnel Approach) |
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Posted by Kew Gardens Teleport on Thu Dec 2 21:30:25 2010, in response to Re: Burden of Proof (Re: Atheist Billboard At Lincoln Tunnel Approach), posted by JayMan on Wed Dec 1 21:31:33 2010. and not give credence to propositions solely because they have not been disproved (especially if they are unfalsifiable, that is, cannot be in principle disproved -- like God).But even then there are two levels of unfalsifiability. For instance: 1) the claim that there is a plesiosaur living in Loch Ness; 2) the claim that there is an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent supreme being that created the universe existing outside space-time. In the first case, it is at least possible (albeit very unlikely) that someone could go to Loch Ness, find a plesiosaur, and study and document its habitat. In the second case, there isn't even a vague hope of anyone being able to provide any sort of reliable a posteriori evidence. |
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