My “Russell’s Teapot” design. I hadn’t seen any real good-looking, clean, accurate, designs for Russell’s Teapot so I created my own. The teapot is zoomed in for you so you can see it, otherwise it would be too small to see as it is supposed to be, it is in an elliptical orbit around the sun and lies between earth and Mars.

Sometimes also called the “Celestial Teapot.” It is a term coined by the philosopher Bertrand Russell. It is an analogy to show the fallacy of an “argument from ignorance,” and to point out where the burden of proof lies. Here you have a china teapot revolving around the sun in an elliptical orbit between Earth and Mars and is too small to be revealed by even our most powerful telescopes. The flaw in the logic this analogy represents is – if you can’t prove this teapot doesn’t exist, then I can conclude that it does. It is often used to point out the fallacious logic of a creationist when they say, “since you can’t prove god doesn’t exist, then he does.”