How atheist are you

[ManMachine]

Was listening to Prof Dawkins on the way to work this morning. He described a spectrum of agnosticism from
1, KNOWING there is a god,
2 Being almost certain there is
3 more probable than not,
4, even odds,
5, more probable than not that there isn't,
6, almost certain there isn't, and
7. KNOWING there is no God.

He described himself as a 6, and cited the celestial teapot, which may or may not be orbiting the sun, as an example (it's probably not but he couldn't be certain).

So my question is, where are you on Dawkins scale?

On a scale of 1 to 7, I'd be an A.



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[Cato]

7. Apophenia exists, God does not.

[The Valkyrie]

I would honestly say I'm a six.

I'm not going to make a definitive claim that there are no gods, simply because it's impossible, at this point, to know this as a fact.

I am, however, fairly certain that there are none.

[Tiberius]

So my question is, where are you on Dawkins scale?

I reject Dawkin's scale because I've never seen a decent explanation for how you can measure the "probability" of God's existence. If you can't measure it, it makes no sense to even state things like "completely certain" or "more likely than not" or even "50/50".

I just prefer calling myself an agnostic atheist. I don't believe in a God, but I also don't make any claims of knowledge concerning the existence of God.

[Brakeman]

Peg the arrow as far to the absolutely certain as possible. 7+

I like the ball sac singing option though..

[Darkstar]

I'm a 6.9

I could round up to seven, but...nah, I'd better not. I'm not a 7 because absolute knowledge is impossible, and because if an omnipotent god did exist, it would be possible for it to hide itself indefinitely. As to why it would do that, I don't know (assuming it would be the god of any known religion, that is). If you were to expand the definition of "god" to something more vague and impersonal, I might go as low as a six.

Maybe.

[Ryantology]

So my question is, where are you on Dawkins scale?

I reject Dawkin's scale because I've never seen a decent explanation for how you can measure the "probability" of God's existence. If you can't measure it, it makes no sense to even state things like "completely certain" or "more likely than not" or even "50/50".

I just prefer calling myself an agnostic atheist. I don't believe in a God, but I also don't make any claims of knowledge concerning the existence of God.

I can think of nothing which is less likely than a universe-creating God except for any religion's specific examples of a universe-creating God. That's the agnosticism which flavors my atheism. It would literally be the biggest surprise imaginable if any terrestrial religion got it right.

[Simon Moon]

Pretty much a 6 on the Dawkins' scale with regards to some definitions of a god. Like a god of first cause, for example.


Pretty much a 7 with regards to any of the omni, prayer answering, human interfering, Prophet sending, miracle working, gods of ancient supernatural texts.

[Whateverist]

I'm entirely certain that I've never heard a coherent description of God. In the absence of knowing what the hell we're talking about, I can't be bothered to formulate a likelihood prediction for god knows what.

I do believe that other people experience something they know as God. I'm aware of the way some of them describe this experience. But I expect this is nothing more than a splinter of their own consciousness. Of course I could be wrong but then so could they. Clearly it matters to them. It doesn't matter to me.

No number for me, thank you. Sure I'm agnostic but I'm also ignostic, apatheist and atheist. None of these describe what I am but rather only what I'm not. Meh.

[Polaris]

Number one is not strong enough.