There is either a platypus in my pocket or not, so there's a 50% chance that I have a platypus in my pocket. Seems kind of high odds there. — Hanover
in your pocket — SophistiCat
Still, whether or not Humans created the idea of a God or not does not detract from these scenarios, as even if God is a human construction, other explanations for our creation and the existence of other beings (such as those above) are still relevant. — Javants
As such, we can determine that there are six possibilities about our cause and the existence of a God. Thus, we can deduce the probabilities of these outcomes (assuming they are all equally probable).
That no God exists has a 1 in 2 (1/2) chance.
That a God exists has a 1 in 3 (1/3) chance.
That a Semi-God exists has a 1 in 6 (1/6) chance — Javants
Using that same reasoning there is a fifty-fifty chance that there is a flying pink unicorn next to me chanting in Aramaic, because it either exists, or it doesn't. — Javants
I assume they are equally probable because there is no way we can know or prove that they are unequal. Whilst these scenarios are likely not equally probable, we can't really know how much more probable a certain scenario is - hence, I assume they are equal for the sake of providing some kind of statistic. — Javants
Let me help you out here. There is either a platypus, a piece of lint, or nothing in your pocket. It's equal odds (of course), but there's now only a 33% chance of there being a platypus in your pocket. Better? — SophistiCat
We can assume, firstly, that you exist. If you perceive a world, you must exist, as otherwise you would not be able to perceive that world ('Cognito, ergo sum'). We can now deduce that there are two possibilities:
That you have a Creator. Something has caused your existence, which could be either a deity, natural phenomena, etc.
That you do not have a Creator. It is inevitable that the first thing to ever exist could not have come from any preexisting thing, and thus must have come from nothingness. As such, you have no creator. — Javants
An important thought seems to be left out here and that is any effect some "God" would have on my life includes me being created. Every thing I do would be the result of being created by this God. The actions of my children are somewhat caused by me for they would never do the things they do if I had never created them with my wife.That Creator is not a God. That which created you is something which has no interaction with you in your life. This is known as Inactive Causation, and hence, a God does not exist. — Javants
There are actually a couple of other possibilities, both of which eliminate the possibility of a necessary creator.
1) That there actually isn't a first thing to exist. Causation could continue on forever in both directions. An infinite regress is possible.
2) There is a loop of causation - that the ending is actually the beginning and vice versa. — Harry Hindu
An important thought seems to be left out here and that is any effect some "God" would have on my life includes me being created. Every thing I do would be the result of being created by this God. The actions of my children are somewhat caused by me for they would never do the things they do if I had never created them with my wife. — Harry Hindu
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