Evolution, the Bible, and the 3.5 Million Dollar Violin - my article

[Jeffonthenet]

In a court situation I would perhaps agree. However, in our lives, I don't think so. It seems to me to be a question of how trustworthy the person is and the evidence that they are sane etc… And if we simply consider God as likely as Santa, then it seems to me that we are, without evidence, doing so…. unless one will present evidence to show this. However, no one i have ever met has been able to do this convincingly.

If you give good evidence that god should be considered more likely to exist than santa, I will consider it so, however, as things stand, no evidence has been given to make either worth considering likely at all. A personal testament may be all the proof you require to believe in some supernatural being, but dubious statements from dubious people are never things I would consider proof enough for me to change my lifestyle, especially when they contradict science.

I've asked many atheists for reasons to consider God as likely as Santa and I haven't found any good ones. If you want to apriori consider God as likely as Santa you should at least have a justifiable reason, and God's existence does is no way contradict science.