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burden of proof

Do Lacktheists have a Burden of Proof?

October 19, 2021 by Randal

One of my many pet peeves: self-described atheists who are at pains to insist they have no burden of proof. That also applies to those who claim they ‘lack belief’: ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: agnosticism, burden of proof, epistemology, lacktheism

A Quick Response to Atheists Who Claim that They Don’t Have a Burden of Proof

August 31, 2020 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, burden of proof

God and the Burden of Proof

May 9, 2014 by Randal

I’ve talked about God and the burden of proof in the past. (See, for example, “God’s existence: where does the burden of proof lie?” and “Atheist, meet Burden of Proof. Burden of Proof, meet Atheist.”) Today we’ll return to the question beginning with a humorous cartoon. This cartoon appears to be doing several things. But the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, burden of proof, debate, theism

God’s existence: where does the burden of proof lie?

May 16, 2013 by Randal

In my critique of Jonathan Pearce I noted that atheists like Pearce and Loftus: “like to try presenting debates of this sort as if the burden of proof is borne by the theist. But that’s false. If the theist is attempting to argue that we ought to be theists the atheist is attempting to argue […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, burden of proof, theism

Kolmogorov complexity, conjunction rules, and the burden of proof

October 4, 2012 by Randal

The other day in our discussion of burdens of proof Robert recalled the time when he “asked Luke Muehlhauser why we should exclude supernatural agents from our worldview.”  Luke replied like this: “If someone is going to add something with such high Kolmogorov complexity as non-physical minds to their ontology, they’d better have a really […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, burden of proof, kolmogorov complexity, rhetoric, theism

Atheist, meet Burden of Proof. Burden of Proof, meet Atheist.

October 1, 2012 by Randal

I recently had an extended discussion with a reader at “Debunking Christianity” named “Joseph Palazzo”. For me, the over-arching goal of the conversation was to see what reasons Joseph had for endorsing his atheistic worldview. After a long converstation it became clear that Joseph was unable to provide clear reasons why he was an atheist. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, burden of proof, naturalism, theism

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