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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It just means he is agnostic. He doesn’t know so he chooses to not have an opinion on it. Its like if i ask you if you like pecan ice cream but you have never tried it. You can neither say you like it or like it. The same goes with aliens. Just because we haven’t seen any doesn’t mean they dont exist. And even if they do exists, it doesn’t mean they will come visit us or even have the technology required to do so.
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