(September 30, 2014 at 8:44 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Today my brother wrote to me, "For example, a 1995 survey attributed to the Encyclopedia Britannica indicated that the non-religious make up about 14.7% of the world's population, and that atheists make up around 3.8%. Another survey attributed to the Encyclopedia Britannica found that the population of atheists made up only 2.4% of the world's population. According to an important study published at the University of Cambridge in 2005, 88% of the world's population believed in god's existence. We have considerable data suggesting to the contrary of the assumption of the argument in that most people would deny that there even is a Problem of Divine Hiddenness. Any reasonable contemplative nonbeliever should be candid about the apparent vastly superior Problem of Divine Revealedness.
Hear that believers and fellow heathens? God has revealed himself too damn much!
Fuckin' hell, the second to last sentence in that quote is over-complicated something awful. That's a lot of words to get to a simple argument from popularity, and a drastic misinterpretation of what the problem of divine hiddenness is even looking for.
Incidentally Pickup, since your brother believes this to be the case, is he at all concerned about the Problem of Divine Contradiction that rears its head if he's willing to just use belief in god in general as his yardstick? I mean, it's not like any of those religions, and denominations thereof, can even agree on the basics of what that god is, like his name, so...
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