(September 2, 2015 at 10:59 am)Ben Davis Wrote:(September 2, 2015 at 10:40 am)Shuffle Wrote: Are you talking to me. If you are, I don't think that matters. All that matters is the amount of gods that can be conceived of, which is infinite.
The probability of anything infinite happening is 1 so that would make god/s a certainty. The problem with this supposition is that it defines god/s as everything/anything: "I can conceive of a god which is a chair therefore...". This robs the explanatory power from the definition of 'god/s'. What we need is a definition of the god in question which can then have its attributes compared to 'things about which we understand the probability of existence'; where attributes have existent matches, we can begin to hazard a number; where attributes are demonstrably non-existent, we can state impossibility; where there are no existent comparisons for attributes, no probability can be ascertained.
The chances that a specific god, out of the infinitely many more, is correct is 0.
