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Russell's teapot
Kettle Russell
Russell's teapot analogy is created by the philosopher Bertrand Russell to refute the idea that it is up to discredit skepticism of the claims unfalsifiable religion. In an article titled Is There a God? (English language, "Is there a God?") Commissioned (but never published) in 1952 by Illustrated magazine, Russell wrote:
" If I suggest that between Earth and Mars is a porcelain teapot that orbits the sun in an elliptical orbit no one could disprove my assertion provided I'm careful to add that the teapot is too small to be seen even by the most powerful telescopes. But if I said that, since my assertion can not be refuted, doubt it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason, rightly think that I am talking nonsense. However, if the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, if taught each Sunday as a sacred truth, if you install in the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would be a sign of eccentricity, and who would doubt deserves the attention of a psychiatrist in an enlightened time, or of the Inquisitor in earlier times. "
Bertrand Russell in his book The Devil's Chaplain, Richard Dawkins developed the concept:
" The reason organized religion merits outright hostility is that, unlike belief in Russell's teapot, religion is powerful, influential, tax-exempt and systematically inculcated is the children who are too young to defend themselves. Nobody pushes children to spend their formative years memorizing books crazy about kettles. The government-subsidized schools do not exclude children whose parents prefer the wrong way teapots. Believers in teapots not stoned to non-believers in the kettles, the apostates from the kettles and teapots blasphemous. Mothers do not warn their children against marrying pagans who believe in three teapots rather than one. The people who first take the milk does not stick on his knees to throw that tea first. "
Richard Dawkins
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