Re: Did you "Choose to Believe," or "Choose not to believe"?

In article <6hfk24trbf9u1frd3cjfb49desh6ivvbe6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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raven1  <quoththeraven@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Wed, 14 May 2008 00:34:14 +0000 (UTC),
>gazelle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Kenny McCormack) wrote:
>
>>In article <jk4k245l6pckg0tvnnp45ruo695gac3a9e@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>raven1  <quoththeraven@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>...
>>>You're putting the cart before the horse. In the absence of any
>>>evidence for something existing, the default position is to withhold
>>>belief in it. Logically, the burden of proof rests with the claimant,
>>>and theists are the ones claiming that god/s exist. Atheists aren't
>>>making a counter-claim, we're simply saying "we don't believe you".
>>
>>Of course.  That's their whole game.  To move the burden of proof from
>>them to you.  Since they reject science and everything it stands for,
>>they don't understand that you can't do this.  That the most basic point
of
>>the scientific method is to assume the null hypothesis.
>
>My first draft of the above post actually referred to the null
>hypothesis, until I realized that the theists the post was directed at
>likely wouldn't have a clue as to what I was talking about.

I'm sure you're right about that.