(September 5, 2009 at 12:39 pm)theVOID Wrote: Bullshit. The statements are the same.
No, the statements are not the same at all. The first case is the absence of a belief, whereas the second case is the presence of a belief. (And as Darwinian indicated, one shoulders a burden of proof while the other does not.)
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)