(January 2, 2013 at 5:15 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Ah. Burden of proof is not a red herring. Tell us how many dimensions there really are, and if it's more than three or four, you'll see burden of proof back in a heartbeat.
Indeed. The burden of proof and who has it is only a problem to someone who has no proof and knows it. It's not some optional extra to be declined or accepted according to taste; it's a fundamentally intrinsic component to presenting a claim. Anyone who doesn't think that's fair had better take the matter up with the god they probably think wrote these kinds of laws of rationality in the first place.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
