Define god/s. — 180 Proof
First try to understand what a probability is.I am interested in how people assign probabilities. — Down The Rabbit Hole
Sorry, but I think such speculations are ridiculous. — jgill
First try to understand what a probability is. — L'éléphant
Incorrect. Please try again.Probability is the extent to which something is likely to be true or false etc. We can do a rough calculation of this. — Down The Rabbit Hole
That's not what you said in your previous post.the quality or state of being probable; the extent to which something is likely to happen or be the case. — Down The Rabbit Hole
That's not what you said in your previous post. — L'éléphant
the extent to which something is likely to be true or false etc. — Down The Rabbit Hole
the extent to which something is likely to happen or be the case. — Down The Rabbit Hole
Dawkins speaks scoffingly of a personal God, as though it were entirely obvious exactly what this might mean. He seems to imagine God, if not exactly with a white beard, then at least as some kind of chap, however supersized. He asks how this chap can speak to billions of people simultaneously, which is rather like wondering why, if Tony Blair is an octopus, he has only two arms. For Judeo-Christianity, God is not a person in the sense that Al Gore arguably is. Nor is he a principle, an entity, or ‘existent’: in one sense of that word it would be perfectly coherent for religious types to claim that God does not in fact exist. He is, rather, the condition of possibility of any entity whatsoever, including ourselves. He is the answer to why there is something rather than nothing. God and the universe do not add up to two, any more than my envy and my left foot constitute a pair of objects. — Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching
Surely there could be arguments for and against god/s that adjust the likelihood we should put on their existence? — Down The Rabbit Hole
First try to understand what a probability is. — L'éléphant
think the most reasonable percentage is 50% — SpaceDweller
Most interesting! — Ms. Marple
When considering philosophical arguments for and against god it may nudge us a further 10% or so, one way or the other? — Down The Rabbit Hole
If you're trying to turn this pool into average % that's a clear bias because the result will be positive regardless of how many people vote for 0% — SpaceDweller
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