Christians: Is absence of evidence evidence of absence?

Question

The answer is no.

Sho-Nuff: Good point, but only if said object is observable.

Beta: Hey, NO answer! How appropriate.

Answer 1

Hey, a question AND an answer. How appropriate!

Answer 2

Actually according to Bayes Theorem, Absence of Evidence is Evidence of Absence. It is Bayes theorem that allows us to determine exactly how Absence of Evidence improves the probability of Absence.

Evidence is not about proof or certainty or necessity, it is simply something that can contribute to a probability estimate.

The probability of an event A conditional on another event B is generally different from the probability of B conditional on A. However, there is a definite relationship between the two, and Bayes' theorem is the statement of that relationship.

If the claim is that there is a being which causes measurable effects in the universe and we fail to observe those effects then according to Bayes Theorem that is evidence that such a being does not exist.

An example is as follows: suppose we are trying to determine if someone has cancer. They do a mammogram and do not find breast cancer. Is this evidence that the person does not have cancer. Of course it is, the person may still have cancer. Indeed they might still have breast cancer but the fact they didn't find it reduces the probablity that cancer exists. It is bayes theorem which tells us exactly how much the probability is reduced by the false result.

Answer 3

technology oftentimes is going by ability of that concept therefore: no longer be be seen as fools at the same time as the information ultimately turns up. If a scientist had suggested that the coelacanth fish replaced into extinct and considering that no get at the same time so a procedures were presented up from the deep, they could look like fools at the same time as no longer basically one, yet 2 were got here across alive, in 1938 and 1952. If we had suggested that voices and footage might want to no longer be transmitted invisibly and inaudibly by the air, then at the same time as TVs, radios,and cellphones were invented, back, we ought to always have kept our mouths close. each clinical leap ahead appeared, at one time, to be the artwork of stupid dreamers.

Answer 4

The evidence is overwhelming if you have eyes that see and a brain that works.... just take a look at the universe and everything in it. Intelligent design is everywhere. When you see a wondrously crafted building you don't wonder how it came about ... you know that there was a builder involved.
Evolution is what people believe that want to wallow in their sinful lifestyle; they do not want to believe that they will have to give an account of how they lived their life to a HOLY GOD someday.
~GOD BLESS YOU AND LEAD YOU INTO ALL TRUTH~

Answer 5

Sho nuff said it already.
Edit to details: So you are saying IPU is real then.

Answer 6

Donald Rumsfeld, is that you? "There are known knowns and known unknowns. But there are also unknown unknowns. Things we don't know we don't know about." I guess that was really a paraphrase, not a quote.

Answer 7

Hey, if you answer your own question. you don't give us anything to do!

But your answer is wrong! It's actually "sometimes."

We just never know which times!

Answer 8

It depends on whether or not said object is omnipresent.

Answer 9

YAY retarded logic day is getting into full swing!!! Since I wear shoes god and satan are the same!!

Answer 10

I know what you are getting at. No.