(October 2, 2013 at 5:16 pm)Rational AKD Wrote: any belief proposing a certainty of more than 50% in truth value and by its nature less than 50% for the negating proposition requires burden of proof. if they are exactly the same in plausibility, you can't say one is more rational than the other. you must say they are equally plausible if both sides have equal evidence or no evidence.
Well then, show me a claim and its negation where both have equal plausibility.
And no, it's not your god claim since there is no way to determine the plausibility of the claim. And since you are the one that is claiming equal plausibility, the burden of proof is still yours to demonstrate that.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
