RE: How we determine facts.
January 6, 2015 at 9:34 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2015 at 9:39 pm by Jenny A.)
Now suppose your bag has an infinite number of marbles. You start pulling out marbles and they are all white for hundreds and thousands of marbles. Can you ever prove that all of the marbles are white? No. But you do begin to have reason to be confident don't you? Now do you see why in the case of any well tested proposition, the burden of proof is on the person showing the contrary idea. In other words, if after 100,000 marbles had all come out of the bag white, the burden of proof would be on anyone claiming that there are black marbles in there somewhere.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
