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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Something could exist without us knowing it exists. Atheists and agnostics understand this. So, for the most part they are quite willing to accept that they cannot prove the non-existence of God. God might exist even though the non-believers don’t believe it or don’t see evidence of it.
This admission frustrates some believers, who would prefer that non-believers claim to know, or to be able to prove that God doesn’t exist, so the believers can then say “aha! you can’t prove that, so your nonbelief is a kind of faith”.
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