as for your second line. nice try, but thats not how it works. the one who believes in god has the burden of proof. this is how we can tell what is actually in front of us "reality" and what is not.
2. Arguments similar to,
"Belief in proposition X is justified because you can't prove it's not true," are based on the premise that belief in something is justified until sufficient evidence refutes its existence (i.e.
argument from ignorance). In this case, the theist is asserting that belief in God is justified even without evidence. While this view may seem reasonable to those who already accept the existence of God, this approach to belief merely represents a form of
compartmentalization. If we were to broadly accept the general premise (i.e., "belief is warranted because you can't prove a negative"), we would be unable to develop any useful picture of
reality because every claim would be necessarily accepted as
true until it was disproved. This is a burden that is impossible to meet when dealing with
supernatural claims. The theist is compartmentalizing his or her supernatural beliefs and applying standards different from those applied to other beliefs. To put it more bluntly, a rational person does not seriously claim that
leprechauns or
unicorns must be assumed to exist because we have not
disproved their existence.
Burden of Proof
Apologists have the
burden of proof for the existence of god since they are making a knowledge claim and their view is
unfalsifiable. Philosopher
Bertrand Russell compared the attempt to disprove god to attempting to disprove the existence of a celestial teapot. Since it is impractical to expect a disproof of either and are therefore unfalsifiable, the burden of proof cannot lay with the skeptic.