(November 24, 2015 at 12:59 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Yeah, I definitely meant for the "do not know, but live as if there is no God" option to be between a 5 and a 4, but I can see how it can be interpreted differently. Everything else is right on, except maybe the "weak 6" would be between a 6 and a 5... lol. Ahh, this is getting complicated lol.
Therein lies the problem with language: interpretation.
To me, "I don't know but I live my life without that assumption" can definitely fall firmly in a 6, or can apply to a 5 or a high 4, it just all depends on how one interprets "I don't know." It can be an informed "I don't know" based on the evaluation of evidence so far, or it can be an "I can't even form an opinion on the matter" sort of "I don't know."
(November 24, 2015 at 1:05 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(November 24, 2015 at 12:28 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: So in Dawkins Scale speak you'd be a 1 or 2? Or maybe a 1.0000000001
Haha, well I think he was a little loaded in the way he wrote #1. I dunno. It's not that I have never questioned, or that I never weigh possibilities in my head, it's that at this point I always come to the firm conclusion that there is a God. The way he wrote it made it sound like the person never actually thinks about it. But yes, I feel as certain that God is real as I am certain that my husband loves me. And that feels 100% certain.
I don't think it's any more loaded than saying "I am 100% sure that there is no god" which is how he defines a 7. You could invert them and use "I am 100% sure that there is a god" as the definition of a 1 and "I do not question that there is no god, I know no gods exist" as the definition of a 7 and I don't think that changes the veracity of either position.
Quote:I always come to the firm conclusion that there is a God.
What makes you come to that conclusion?
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.