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Monday, April 24, 2006
The absence of a sandwich
I'd written earlier about how atheism is not an act of faith, but an absence of faith. Well, those critics who would contend that even that absence is a sort of faith should check out this post by PZ Myers, in which he writes:
(Link via email from Patrix.)
[T]he absence of faith is not faith, any more than the absence of a sandwich is also a kind of tasty snack between two slices of bread.Heh. Let me clarify, at this point, that I do believe in sandwiches. But when there ain't a sandwich around, there ain't a sandwich around. So there.
(Link via email from Patrix.)
