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Can a lack of evidence be considered proof?
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RE: Can a lack of evidence be considered proof?
(May 27, 2016 at 8:40 pm)ignoramus Wrote: If there is no trace of our sentient creator anywhere in the universe, does that not prove that he doesn't exist?

This.

Yeah, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. So long as the evidence is for a weakly observable hypothesis. But the kind of theism that people care about is the kind that we would be obliged to believe, if it were true. 

That kind of theism definitely isn't true.
A Gemma is forever.
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RE: Can a lack of evidence be considered proof? - by Gemini - May 27, 2016 at 9:53 pm
RE: Can a lack of evidence be considered proof? - by Foxaèr - February 1, 2017 at 1:58 am
RE: Can a lack of evidence be considered proof? - by Asmodee - February 1, 2017 at 11:39 am

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