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Flat Earth Community / Reversal of Burden of Proof
« on: February 26, 2016, 02:28:58 PM »
I've read the wiki entry for burden of proof. For those that haven't read it recently or at all, the question posed is
"Isn't the burden of proof on you to prove it?"
The response is that no, it is the reader/RE supporter who claims that "NASA can send men to the moon, robots to mars, and space ships into the solar system", and therefore the burden is upon that person to prove their claim(s).
I make no such claims. However, this entire site is based upon the premise, and therefore does claim, that the earth is flat.
Do FE believers consider themselves always to be the defendant/respondent in circumstances where the shape of the earth is being discussed? Do they never positively claim that the earth is flat? If they do, then they become the claimant, and therefore the burden of proving the claim rests with them.
I raise this because despite having lurked on the previous site and now this one for many years, the most common response to a request for proof of a flat earth is "look out of your window". It's rather a basic "proof", in my opinion, but I rarely see anything more persuasive.
I hold out little hope of any informative response. I might even be chastised for deigning to visit the website and expecting to be spoonfed evidence of a flat earth.
"Isn't the burden of proof on you to prove it?"
The response is that no, it is the reader/RE supporter who claims that "NASA can send men to the moon, robots to mars, and space ships into the solar system", and therefore the burden is upon that person to prove their claim(s).
I make no such claims. However, this entire site is based upon the premise, and therefore does claim, that the earth is flat.
Do FE believers consider themselves always to be the defendant/respondent in circumstances where the shape of the earth is being discussed? Do they never positively claim that the earth is flat? If they do, then they become the claimant, and therefore the burden of proving the claim rests with them.
I raise this because despite having lurked on the previous site and now this one for many years, the most common response to a request for proof of a flat earth is "look out of your window". It's rather a basic "proof", in my opinion, but I rarely see anything more persuasive.
I hold out little hope of any informative response. I might even be chastised for deigning to visit the website and expecting to be spoonfed evidence of a flat earth.