• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    28 days ago

    That’s extremely not how logic works.

    If you tell me that there’s a teapot floating out in a particular point in outer space, and I say there isn’t, you’re the one who has to provide evidence of it. I don’t have to provide evidence there isn’t a teapot, I can just dismiss the claim on the basis that it’s made without evidence. If you say a genocide is happening somewhere, and can’t provide any evidence of it, I’m free to dismiss the claim since it was made without evidence, and I don’t have to provide evidence to justify that dismissal.

    This is no different from a theist trying to shift the burden of proof onto an atheist through rhetorical trickery.