(April 17, 2014 at 1:27 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Regarding the magic coin analogy and burden of proof. An athiest believes that there is no God. Ok, the burden of proof is now on you. Prove to me there is no God.
No, an atheist does not believe that there is a god. Where you place the "not" decides the entire meaning of the words. I agree that if I or anyone were to make the claim that there is no god that I would bear the burden of proof; but I am not making such a claim - you are the one claiming that there is a god. Thus you automatically attract the burden of proving that your claim is justified.
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.'
