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Originally Posted by RVCA
Right, as is the existence of the flying spaghetti monster, invisible magical gnomes, tiny golden teapots orbiting our solar system, or any other infinite number of epistemic absurdities for which there is no evidence nor reason to believe exist. I quite disagree with "you can't disprove it and neither can I!" being a rational, or even accepted, basis for belief.
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To be fair, as long as it's regarded as the basis for
belief and not
knowledge, there's not much harm in it. In any case it's basic knowledge that he who makes the positive claim is the one with the burden of proof. However, it also seem to be common practice among believers and so-called 'open-minded' people to disregard that.