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publishing a consensus-changing tome? After all, anyone who published the definitive article (appearing in one of the top peer-reviewed journals of history or religious studies) and unseated the long-standing conclusion of scholars at the world's top universities that the Jesus who founded the Christian religion lived in Palestine in the first century, they would be richly rewarded with an endowed chair at the academic institution of their choice and probably make the cover of Time Magazine as the most influential history scholar of all time. What would be the obstacle? (Obviously, the editorial boards of the major journals and the memberships of the various scholarly societies are well populated with atheists and agnostics who have no personal stake in defending the present view of Jesus Christ as someone who actually lived in the first century. So proof of Jesus' "non-existence" would certainly get plenty of open doors.)
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BURDEN OF PROOF is placed on the one making the claim that the overwhelming consensus of a field is FALSE. For example, if you wish to claim that gravity is just an illusion despite centuries of consensus, the burden of proof is ON YOU.
Bold claims require bold explanations and evidence of why the overwhelming consensus is wrong. THAT IS HOW SCHOLARLY BURDENS OF PROOF ARE ASSIGNED.
SOURCES: Professor Emeritus
(D.Phil. Oxford)
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BURDEN OF PROOF is placed on the one making the claim that the overwhelming consensus of a field is FALSE. For example, if you wish to claim that gravity is just an illusion despite centuries of consensus, the burden of proof is ON YOU.
Bold claims require bold explanations and evidence of why the overwhelming consensus is wrong. THAT IS HOW SCHOLARLY BURDENS OF PROOF ARE ASSIGNED.
SOURCES: Professor Emeritus
(D.Phil. Oxford)