(March 17, 2017 at 2:21 pm)Jesster Wrote:(March 17, 2017 at 2:06 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I follow this up by questioning whether or not atheism should be the default position, as many atheists assume.
...Most commonly in a court case, a defendant is "innocent until proven guilty". While we aren't entirely sure they are innocent, they are treated as such until there is enough evidence to show that they are actually guilty....This is the default position on any claim.
As SteveII pointed out there are different standards for acceptance - "preponderance of the evidence", "reasonable doubt", and "absolute certainty." And as I have said, different criteria of acceptance are used claims in different domains such as history, mathematics, text interpretation, archaeology, philosophy and physics. The default position for a properly basic belief is acceptance.