> To make a statement like that in the opening lines as if its obvious seems genuinely presumptous. Then you must not be familiar with Bertrand Russell’s teapo

> To make a statement like that in the opening lines as if its obvious seems genuinely presumptous. Then you must not be familiar with Bertrand Russell’s teapot analogy. The TL;DR is this: “Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.”