The philosophic burden of proof to whether an event occurred is "on a balance of probability", as used in civil trials, rather than "beyond reasonable doubt" as required in criminal trials.

Because of its popularity and exposure, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is often used as a contemporary version of Russell's teapot - an argument that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon those who make unfalsifiable claims, not on those who reject them.

Russell's teapot - analogy first coined by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) to illustrate the idea that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making scientifically unfalsifiable claims rather than shifting the burden of proof to others, specifically in the case of religion.