• Communist@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    The second one is wrong, there is no god is not a claim that requires evidence in the same way there are no fairies in my fridge doesn’t require evidence

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      7 months ago

      Negative claims require evidence.

      Otherwise a safety engineer can go to a regulator and say “There are no structural issues with this building.” He is claiming there are no issues, he needs to back that up with evidence.

      Your Jedi mind tricks won’t work on me. 😜