re burden of proof in article c t sf oz mentor cc purdue edu frittsbc sage cc purdue edu brian fritts writes i saw one theist on this net talking about the absurdity of one saying he doesn t believe in god and how can we be sure the problem with this and other arguments assumes that the burden of proof lies with the atheist wrong in philosophy the one who is making a positive argument must give reasons for his believing so not the negative if i were to make the statement elves exist then it would be up to me to prove my positive assertion not the person saying that elves don t exist if the negative in this case had to prove elves don t exist he would have to omniscient and know every inch of the universe the same applies with god give me your reasons and you the theist make the case i think you have are addressing the wrong issue the situation is more like we both see some elves this is established as fact since we can both touch them etc then one of us says the elves have always been with us the other says no no there was a time before elves were here which is the positive argument lionel tun lionel cs city ac uk computer vision group city university london ec v hb ext
