If you spend your life looking in vain for the Loch Ness Monster, stalking the lake with a camera, sounding it with sonar, and sending submersibles into its depths, and yet still find nothing, what is the more sensible view: to conclude provisionally that the monster simply isn't there, or to throw up your hands and say, It might be there; I'm not sure? Most people would give the first response—unless they're talking about God.

p. 95 - Faith vs. Fact (2015)