Does it? It removes the unstated assumption that no evidence is ever presented and replaces the burden of proof onto the claimant to provide compelling evidence. If you think that's an unfair standard, consider that it's how we approach all situations we are faced with every day. After all, you wouldn't go about swallowing pills from a stranger in the street without first asking for evidence that they are what they're claimed to be, would you?
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.'