keongzai

Making a claim is easy, backing it up can be hard.

If I claim that the moon is a giant chocolate chip cookie floating in space, or if golden retrievers are filled with jellybeans and cotton candy, then the onus is on me to prove it.

The bolder the claim, the stronger the evidence required.

As an atheist, I never understood why the religious folks insist that we have to prove god doesn’t exist. We never claimed that was anything there in the first place so there’s nothing to prove.

The burden, on the other hand, is on them to back up their extraordinary claims and I’ve yet to see any empirical, scientific evidence that could prove the existence of a divine creator, heaven and hell, or eternal life.