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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Sagan realized that if there is extraterrestrial life, it can be proven; we will eventually find that evidence, although it may take a million generations of humans, as the universe is very, very big.
For god or gods, you’re told what to believe, and by definition, there isn’t any proof, and there isn’t any proof coming.
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