(March 8, 2017 at 2:38 pm)ma5t3r0fpupp3t5 Wrote: A lack of belief does not require a burden of proof, because a lack of belief is the default position when there is a lack of proof and valid arguments to sufficiently justify a knowledge claim.
You have made a fallacious move. Just because there is insufficient evidence to accent to either the truth or untruth of a proposition that does not mean one should make one the default position. That is an unsupported move from is to ought. With respect to any given proposition, I say the default position is the one that on its face appears to be the most obvious one. For human beings belief in God is instinctual, confirms personal apprehensions about the sublime, and enjoys cross-cultural confirmation from practitioners of meditation and contemplative prayer. It takes more than just hand-waving (or semantic games) to dismiss these primal observations.
