What did Bertrand Russel technique use to bring his home?

Answer 1

He used an analogy of a celestial teapot. It goes like this: imagine if I told you that there was a china teapot in orbit around the sun between the orbits of Earth and Mars, and that it is so small that our telescopes would not detect it. The point Russel wanted to make was that the notion of "you can't disprove God, therefore belief and the lack of it are equally valid." is meaningless. You would not be able to disprove the existence of this celestial teapot, but it would be absurd to think that believing in its existence is in the same league as being skeptical about it. We cannot disprove billions of things that we don't believe in, like the celestial teapot, tooth fairy, santa clause, or god. But we don't need to disprove them to not believe in them, rather we dont believe them because there isn't a shred of evidence in their favour. We technically have to be agnostics with respect to the celestial teapot, since we cannot be sure that it most certainly doesn't exist, but we are all in practice, a-teapotists.