{"id":1595,"date":"2010-02-24T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/the-burden-of-proof\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T14:27:00","slug":"the-burden-of-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/the-burden-of-proof.html","title":{"rendered":"The Burden Of Proof"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Daniel Shenton, the new president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/global\/2010\/feb\/23\/flat-earth-society\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a society you ought to have heard of<\/a>, had an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/24\/seriously\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">quote about the burden of proof<\/a> regarding a particular matter.<\/p>\n<p>Please refrain from making comparisons with other views represented among readers of this blog who also talk a lot about the burden of proof.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5938713523875009877?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Shenton, the new president of a society you ought to have heard of, had an interesting quote about the burden of proof regarding a particular matter. 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