• Isoprenoid@programming.dev
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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. 😜

    • Communist@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      That’s making a positive claim about a negative outcome. “There is enough evidence to be confident there aren’t structural problems” is what they’re really saying.

      This doesn’t work for god because there’s nothing to check, there’s never been any evidence for god, but there’s been plenty of evidence for structural issues existing.