RE: Understanding the Burden of Proof
August 16, 2012 at 2:26 pm
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2012 at 2:27 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(August 16, 2012 at 1:11 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: While I agree there is no burden of proof for an Atheist for his disbelief, what about if someone disbelieved in the wall of China existing. Surely people will wonder why he doesn't believe in the wall of China existing, when everyone believes it's reasonable to believe in the wall of China existing.
Analogies can go both ways.
Wouldn't the simplest thing be for the person who believes the Great Wall exists to provide the readily-available evidence for it?
Up-close photos, satellite photos, accounts of people who have been there...THEN if the person rejects this evidence, the burden of proof is on them to explain why it isn't sufficiently convincing.
