(September 5, 2009 at 1:40 pm)Arcanus Wrote: 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.)
Yeah I agree as well. Though the statements seem similar, they imply two rather different meanings.
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"Only the dead have seen the end of war..." - Plato
“Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it...” - Richard Dawkins