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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Easy…he never said he was “certain” that there was no god, did he? Not believing in something doesn’t equate to knowing it isn’t true. I don’t believe in ghosts or spirits because I haven’t seen evidence of them but I’ve never claimed to know for a fact that they don’t exist.
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