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Russell’s Teapot
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As part of a larger effort to criticize the leap of faith required to subscribe to most religious doctrines, philosopher Bertrand Russell once argued that if he were to claim, without evidence, that there is a teapot orbiting the Sun between Earth and Mars, and that it’s too small to see with any existing telescope, you could safely disbelieve this statement because he offers it without proof.
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