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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Yes that applies to a god as well.
It doesn’t mean you have to believe in a god, science says there could be one, we just know a bunch if the things the bible claims are incompatible with reality so if there is a god it isn’t the god the christians picture.
Same applies to aliens. They could exist, but it’s extremely unlikely they look like what the alien conspiracy people believe.
Also from a plausibility perspective it’s different. There is zero evidence for any supernatural being. But we have evidence for life being able to exist on one planet, so why shouldn’t it happen on others as well?
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