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Old 25-08-2013, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by phobos View Post
I wasn't clear and you have misunderstood the teapot analogy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot
I'm aware of the teapot analogy and its counterarguments.

From the Wiki article.

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One counter-argument, advanced by philosopher Eric Reitan,[8] is that belief in God is different from belief in a teapot because teapots are physical and therefore in principle verifiable, and that given what we know about the physical world we have no good reason to think that belief in Russell's teapot is justified and at least some reason to think it not.[9]
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