Absence of evidence is not necessarily, in all cases, evidence of absence, but it is exactly what one would expect in a world in which the thing without evidence doesn't exist. In any case, it's sufficient to disregard the claim that the thing without evidence does exist, which is all we really need to do.
Unless, of course, you've got a prior conviction that the thing must exist, evidence or no: then you get the wriggling you get for god. But if the best theists can give us is this sort of hard lean into the idea that future discoveries may enable us to detect their god in future, it's an implicit acknowledgement that they have nothing right now.
Unless, of course, you've got a prior conviction that the thing must exist, evidence or no: then you get the wriggling you get for god. But if the best theists can give us is this sort of hard lean into the idea that future discoveries may enable us to detect their god in future, it's an implicit acknowledgement that they have nothing right now.
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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