Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 21:19:54 -0500 Message-ID: <5769F61C.BF@ix.netcom.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:21:16 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.atheism,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: FAITH References: <5763A7C6.1F1C@ix.netcom.com> <5767FA52.2C4@ix.netcom.com> <5769BB14.49A3@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 30 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-NaeqsjJB9vwg1ip4f6Jt/jZPK+hbCHmkeomu2Jhsmf7KPP1RzK+Ssb8r8oDP5/+57C/qUZTs3dPriia!xRaCWLID86KA95WFs5etGcS3GWGVSYwXWiwI2sMOmYKSW3emXGhDT7ET7jlwH279OhepMLu/mKF8!TPUGXM96 X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2097 X-Received-Bytes: 2188 X-Received-Body-CRC: 429516856 Xref: csiph.com alt.atheism:2129688 sci.physics:586113 sci.physics.relativity:386450 rec.arts.sf.written:442829 Mitchell Holman wrote: > > The Starmaker wrote in > news:5769BB14.49A3@ix.netcom.com: > > > WangoTango wrote: > >> > >> In article <5767FA52.2C4@ix.netcom.com>, starmaker@ix.netcom.com > >> says... > >> > They believe or claim there is no God, but they have no evidence to > >> > back them up that no Gos exist. > >> > >> Ah, the shifting of the burden of proof, or the "Proving a Negative" > >> logical fallacy. > >> > >> All theists have to do is provide *real* evidence and this would all > >> be over. > > > > The burden of proof is always on the person making an assertion or > > proposition. > > > > If the A in atheist means NOT, then yous need to prove your assertion > > since you made up the Not in A..Atheist. > > > > If you assert there is no Santa Claus does > that mean you have to prove he isn't real? well, of course!