Re: Tom Kratman at Baen -- cringeworthy?

In article <6f396189-2c7a-45cd-97e8-75b0fc2c7e03@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Herr Oberst <nrvlaw@xxxxxxx> said:

You know, I'm not all that religious (even though the current
project has religion at its core), but I keep running into this
"absence of evidence is evidence of absence" proposition.

I certainly agree, that is foolishness.

On its face it simply goes past logic. That's half the problem.
The other half is that there is no absence of "evidence;" there's
lots of evidence.

Of, e.g., the existence of a supernatural entity that more or less
matches the specs presented in the Old and New Testaments?

--
William December Starr <wdstarr@xxxxxxxxx>

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