One of the most common "even steven" arguments made by people of faith is that a lack of a belief of god is also an unprovable faith, i.e. you have have faith that he doesn't exist. This is shown to be a fallacy pretty simply because the postive and contrapositive reach the same same conclusion: believe in god-> faith, don't beleive in god-> faith. Everything is faith and there is no null hypothesis.
A Fallacy, and a pretty junior one.
OTOH, some folks, like to hedge their bets:
I especially like the Heaven is Hell line. It's got an armchair economist's logic to it.
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