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firstly. the analogy doesn't suggest ANYTHING to be TRUE, or UNTRUE.
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So it's ultimately meaningless.
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he makes a suggestion that seems quite outlandish, that is, a being a teapot in space, in orbit around the sun. that is a claim he made up. nothing was said to be true or untrue, but seeing he made up the claim,
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Outlandish meaning ridiculous. That's the whole point of the comparison. To make the god claim look "ridiculous."
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it is only rational to assume that it is untrue, not due to it being ridiculous, but due to there being no proof for it.
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Ad ignoratium.
No proof for the positive =/= proof for the negative.