Russell's Teapot Red Messenger Bag

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Russell's Teapot Red Messenger Bag. We're not sure if we really believe in Russell's Teapot, but then we're not sure...

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Russell's Teapot Red Messenger Bag: We're not sure if we really believe in Russell's Teapot, but then we're not sure we believe in God either. And, let's face it, both are equally plausible. "If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time." Bertrand Russell 1952.