(March 29, 2016 at 8:42 am)Red_Wind Wrote:(March 29, 2016 at 7:44 am)Jehanne Wrote: Thanks. What did you think of the article, though? Feel free to be critical of it; I didn't write it. My impression of a lot of so-called "believing" scientists is that, "Yeah, my faith makes me feel good, helps people cope, etc., etc., but, I won't want to defend it in a court of law." Well, why not? Why believe in something that you are unwilling to defend, to go to bat for?
I agree with the position.
Reading Mark Harrisons post, i don't understand why the burden of proof should be on atheists claiming that there is no god.How do you find evidence to disprove something when there is no evidence to support it in the first place, 2 negatives don't make a positive.
Saying that something does not exist for which there is no evidence is a negative assertion. Falsifiability would, however, warrant at least some hypothetical consideration of the "alternate hypotheses," that is, there is a god.
