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Case in point, this tweet from The Skeptic, as he calls himself, has more than 20,000 views so far.

And his profile summary says his purpose is debunking religions

while searching for objective truth.

I believe a world without religion is a world

with more room for humanity.

Let's talk about it, end of quote.

So you may wanna comment on that bill before we

check out the video. For one thing, he apparently thinks the search for objective truth rules out

anything religious. I'd like to see him justify that. It seems that his conclusions are all

made up in advance and his mind is set in concrete.

Well, here's the video. It's about a minute and a half. Let's watch the entire tweet.

And then we'll see if there's anything interesting to divide up and comment on. Here it is.

This is a dragon in my garage. You cannot see it because it's invisible and you cannot hear it because it is silence. You cannot touch it because it floats above our heads and you cannot even feel its fiery breath because its flames are heatless. Do you believe in my dragon? This is the thought experiment that Carl Sagan introduces to show that if somebody makes a claim that cannot be tested or proven

or disproven, what is the difference between an invisible dragon and no dragon at all?

It's all to do with what philosophers call the burden of proof, which says that if somebody

makes a claim, it is up to them to prove it and not for everybody else to disprove it.

If I say there is a dragon in my garage and you say you

don't believe me, I can't then turn around to you and say, well, can you prove that there

isn't a dragon in my garage? Because there is an infinity of imaginary and invisible things that

we could try and disprove every second. As Christopher Hitchens put it, what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed

without evidence. If somebody offers you no proof, there is no need to rebut them. And yet we

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