Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.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!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 17:08:23 -0500 Message-ID: <5769BB14.49A3@ix.netcom.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:09:24 -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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 16 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-wzgmpt0aP2NM6mvz8CODKZEqVV1/Kce4CnU6X22h5MLfuTCohVpOUWONWw00uTagvh6r7llbwlszfc+!d138LLO/j+AqWbfSeCXG3ihHhFQFhsiqkwArK26JHjEC55TOR52WfDt1mSfAhoYwCxpcfd+TdvMm!Q+f+hlBAdHE= 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: 1715 X-Received-Bytes: 1837 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1133169776 Xref: csiph.com alt.atheism:2129583 sci.physics:586082 sci.physics.relativity:386436 rec.arts.sf.written:442810 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.