Thoughts On Atheism and Faith

[Sal]

The idea of a "burden of proof" is a matter of preference.

No it isn't. That's a rather long discussion, but the short of the long story is that Burden of Proof is a logical derivative of the impossibility of disproving a negative assertion.

Just because one is not able to prove something, does not necessarily mean it isn't true.

So what?

There is an infinite amount of baseless assertions possible and an infinite amount of them not necessarily false (careful with the double negatives...). Because of parsimony we only look at positive assertions.