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Date/Time 13 Jul 2014 5:51:08am
Yes you do. If you have no evidence that something does not exist, then you have no reason to believe it doesn't exist.

If I tell you there is a planet around star XH14623, and there is no evidence either way then there is no reason to say "It exists" or "It does not exist", until there is evidence the only option is "It might exist"

The slippery slope to "the myriad things you can dream up" that you have to prove don't exist is one you can ignore. If there is no evidence either way, then don't take a position.

Does the Higgs Boson exist -- I don't know

Do SuperStrings exist? -- I don't know

Do faries exist? -- What type?

Regular faries -- The ones we would have encountered by now if they exist?

No, ones that live on Planet XAR60 -- I don't know.

You can say you <i>believe</i> there are no faries of any type, evolved or not, on XAR60, but unless you have evidence, you can't say Yes or No without it being a faith position.

There's nothing wrong with faith positions, all Theisms are based on faith, as are all Atheisms. Only the agnostics do not believe in unproven claims about reality, they say "If you wish to convince me that a God exists, or does not exist, then provide evidence, because I shall not have faith in an unevidenced claim"