RE: 50/50
August 31, 2015 at 11:09 pm
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2015 at 11:12 pm by IATIA.)
(August 31, 2015 at 9:31 pm)thehedglin Wrote:(August 31, 2015 at 7:38 pm)IATIA Wrote: There is no 50/50 chance of a god. There either is a god or there is not a god. One may consider that they have a 50/50 chance of being correct (or incorrect).
I have a nickle in one hand. Which hand is it in? A 50/50 chance of picking the correct hand, but there is a nickel.
Not quite how it works. Sure, the first coin toss you ever make might be a 50/50 split, but every toss after that is something other than an even split. Likewise, the first god proposition might have been an even split as far as correctness, but every god invented after that was not an even split.
You have obviously missed the point. Firstly, there is no coin toss in my argument. Secondly, regardless of whether or not you pick the correct hand, there is still a coin. There is not a 50/50 chance of there being a coin, only a 50/50 chance of picking which hand it is in. Likewise, there is not a 50/50 chance that a god exists. only a 50/50 chance that one chooses correctly.
(August 31, 2015 at 9:31 pm)thehedglin Wrote: the first coin toss you ever make might be a 50/50 split, but every toss after that is something other than an even split
As to the coin toss, every time it is tossed there is still a 50/50 chance of heads. The number of tosses does not change the possibilities.
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God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
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