Absence of Evidence

Schooling helps, but isn't necessary by any means.
In fact, schooling can often leave out the greatest virtue required in order to make evidenced responses: You need to accept that it's okay to be wrongIf you don't think it's okay to be wrong... you won't be "looking for the truth" - you'll be looking for "something you can back up with anything that could get people to think the way you want them to think."And that's not "evidenced" - that's manipulation.Evidence and "being wrong" go hand-in-hand.
That's how progress is made - corrections (learning) on previously held methods (being wrong.)

Yup.Well, that and the philosophically unchallengeable Eric The God-Eating Penguin

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God can't exist because of Eric The God-Eating Magic Penguin. Since Eric is God-Eating by definition, he has no choice but to eat God. So, if God exists, He automatically ceases to exist as a result of being eaten. Unless you can prove that Eric doesn't exist, God doesn't exist. Even if you can prove that Eric doesn't exist, that same proof will also be applicable to God. There are only two possibilities - either you can prove that Eric doesn't exist or you can't - in both cases it logically follows that God doesn't exist.

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--Mark

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