(March 10, 2018 at 12:59 pm)Hammy Wrote:(March 9, 2018 at 2:04 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: None, of that matters. If you are making a claim, then you have a share in the burden of proof for what you are claiming.
Nope, it doesn't work like that. It's the least parmonious premise that the onus is on.
If I claim that the universe isn't an illusion and we're not in a computer simulation. The burden of proof is not on me. If you claim the universe is an illusion, it's on you.
If you claim to have an imaginary friend who created everything and controls everything.... then the burden of proof is on you. If I claim that such a thing is improbable then that stands to reason to be correct by default until you provide evidence to the contrary. Why? Because of the principle of parsimony. It's the same reason that if you claimed Elvis was still alive and I said "No he isn't" the burden of proof wouldn't be on me but it would be on you. Because you're making a ridiculously unparsimonious suggestion.
Quote: You don't get a free pass, as long as you feel that your claims do not surpass the opposition. It doesn't work that way.
It's clearly you who doesn't understand how it works.
Quote:Many of you guys, for being so quick to bring up the B.O.P. for others, work really hard to get out of it yourselves. It appears that there are a bunch of pseudo-skeptics!
Nah, you're just dumb and don't understand the burden of proof.
You can look it up.... but both sides can have a burden of proof if they are both making competing claims. I’m not surprised though that you think the burden of proof doesn’t apply to you. It explains a lot actually.
Also... you don’t just automatically go with the simplest idea no matter what.... I don’t think you understand this either.
It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. - Alexander Vilenkin
If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther
If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther