(August 30, 2015 at 4:29 pm)Shuffle Wrote: Does anyone agree that the existence of god is a 50/50 chance? I have heard atheists say that theists have said this in the past, but I have never heard it. I just want to make sure it isn't a straw man that atheists have come up with, so I can avoid using it in the future.
Thanks!
There's a guy that posts a lot over at ravingatheists forum that makes this claim. He goes by the name of JerryJohn now. The atheists there have tried, in so many ways, so many examples, so many metaphors, so many analogies, to get him to understand why he is so far from understanding, that he is not even wrong.
But one would need to have absolutely no understanding of even the most basic probabilities to make the 50/50 claim.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
