Big fan of Carl Sagan, he was like a father figure to me, I’m partially molded by him.
That said, something he used to say all the time really baffled me, still does:
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”
He said this when talking about aliens.
However: Sagan was a famous non believer.
How does this aphorism reconcile with the existence or non existence of a god?
If “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence” does that apply to a god as well?
Is there a god even though there is no evidence of him/her/it?
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Absence of evidence IS evidence of absence.
I never want to say that I can’t be wrong, but this sure seems clear to me. Crazy that the incorrect statement is so commonly accepted.
Absence of evidence is not PROOF of absence, true. But it sure as heck is evidence.
Check out this guy’s argument:
[http://kim.oyhus.no/AbsenceOfEvidence.html](http://kim.oyhus.no/AbsenceOfEvidence.html)
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