Dawkins made precisely the same sort of analogy
about there being a diamond the size of a refrigerator buried in his back yard.
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i think bertrand russell did it years ago
a teapot in the same solar orbit as the earth but too far away to detect with telescopes
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Mon 12 Mar 2007, 16:39,
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Yeah.
Dawkins mentioned that in his book, as well.
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