(January 7, 2014 at 8:11 pm)Avodaiah Wrote:(January 7, 2014 at 8:07 pm)Minimalist Wrote: 6.999999999999999 but the likelihood of any god existing is remote and jesus is just plain silly.What makes you lean towards atheism so much instead of just staying at 6?
Bertrand Russell's Teapot Analogy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
Quote:Russell's teapot, sometimes called the celestial teapot or cosmic teapot, is an analogy first coined by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making scientifically unfalsifiable claims rather than shifting the burden of proof to others, specifically in the case of religion. Russell wrote that if he claims that a teapot orbits the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars, it is nonsensical for him to expect others to believe him on the grounds that they cannot prove him wrong. Russell's teapot is still referred to in discussions concerning the existence of God.