RE: Are Atheists using Intellectually Dishonest Arguments?
March 9, 2018 at 3:49 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2018 at 3:55 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(March 9, 2018 at 1:32 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: If someone tells me that a god or a Bigfoot is real or baseball signed by Babe Ruth is in their pocket, and don't provide evidence sufficient to convince me that they are correct, I have zero obligation to provide evidence that they are wrong.
But you do have a burden of proof for your belief that the evidence is insufficient.
Notice that before you stated that you have zero obligation, you have already been presented evidence, evaluated it and judged it to be insufficient. As such your disbelief is justified only to the extent that you can demonstrate that the evidence presented is indeed insufficient. In other words, you have a burden of proof with respect to the beliefs you have about the evidence in order to justify your subsequent disbelief, i.e. your disbelief is contingent upon prior beliefs that do have a burden of proof.
(If you simply don't care whether the proposition "God exists" is or is not true that's a different story. But when someone participates on AF it would be a little disingenous for them to claim that they don't care.)
