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August 21, 2008 - 4:27 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Teresita
2008-08-21 22:17:39

W: Not knowing is not same as not having the guts to put a zero into a bit field when you don’t know if it’s a one or a zero. It’s having the guts to say you don’t know. An atheist is somebody who argues that the value must be a zero.

For the sake of sanity, Atheists default to zero unless extraordinary evidence comes along to argue for putting a one there. Otherwise, people would have to put a one down for every claim from Bigfoot to fairies and elves, to the Loch Ness monster.