i am a hug slut.

Firstly, it is the role of the believer to provide evidence for his claims, not the role of the non-believer to prove that the believer is wrong. To return to Betrand Russell, I cannot prove conclusively that there isn’t a teapot orbiting the earth, and I shouldn’t have to just because you say there is one. If you believe that and want me to believe it too, it’s up to you to show me. And the chances are I’ll want better evidence than ‘I believe it because I just know in my heart there’s one out there’. If you don’t believe me, try proving any negative and you’ll see you soon get stuck. Imagine I want you to believe that there is a green mouse in your house. It’s my job to find it and show it to you; you would never be able to prove there was no green mouse there. You could search for it and take everything out of the house, but it could always be hiding somewhere you weren’t looking. You can’t prove it doesn’t exist. As long as you’re willing to believe the green mouse is there when you finally have unequivocal evidence that it is there, as opposed to someone just telling you it is, then you’re not being remotely narrow-minded to presume it isn’t or to ask for that evidence. That’s healthy scepticism, Show me real-world evidence for your extraordinary claim, and I’ll believe you.