Quote Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV View Post
No, you got a very basic fact wrong:

If you claim something, the burden of proof is on you.

So if you claim there IS a God, and not only that there is a God, but you know what God and how he wants us to live our lives... Then you have the burden of proof. This is very basic logic, I'm surprised you'r not familiar with it.

IE:

You say: There is a God, and it is the Christian God.
I say: I have no idea if there is a God or not, but I have seen nothing pointing in the direction that there is.

How can you POSSIBLY think both sides have the burden of proof here?

If some psycho tell you that Mermaids swim at the bottom of the ocean, would you assume he would have to back it up, or would youy see it as your job to investigate it to see if he was right?

C'mon, think.

I thought you were atheist based on you saying you were atheist post 334. My debate offer in 1v1 with you was indeed I had to support evidence for a creator, as I intended to do. But your claim, the bible is false, you should have to support that claim as well. Your claim atheism [or so I thought] should equally have to be supported with evidence as well. After all, I could make same claim you have to reject christian by saying.

"It's just that all the guys trying to prove the existence of a deity has failed so far. Failed quite hard, too."

but I would say
"It's just that all the guys trying to prove there is no god has failed so far. Failed quite hard, too."


So the case in such a debate, should be evidence for both claims, deity vs no deity.

As far as mermaids, if I were to reject the idea of mermaids, I would provide evidence against mermaids. If I reject a claim there is mermaids, I than should provide evidence there is no mermaids. But all this matters not,as we are not debating.