To: Excellence
Indeed, you cannot prove a negative. You can only fail to prove a positive. So the burden is not on you, the burden is on him
The same line of reasoning could be made about proving the existance of God.
17 posted on
07/07/2009 11:44:27 AM PDT by
contemplator
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To: contemplator
Indeed, you cannot prove a negative. You can only fail to prove a positive. So the burden is not on you, the burden is on him
The same line of reasoning could be made about proving the existence of God.
So does that mean that those who cannot prove God does not exist cannot prove their point also? Than would that mean that we must than accept everyone's belief regardless of how out of whack it is?
21 posted on
07/07/2009 11:50:30 AM PDT by
Korah
To: contemplator
I didn’t make up the rules of reasoning.
35 posted on
07/07/2009 12:00:34 PM PDT by
Excellence
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