Of course you can get all philosophical and metaphysical about meanings, but I like to use the numerical scale. For example, Dawkins stated in "The God Delusion" on page 73-74 that if on a 1 to 7 scale of belief ranging from 1 being a strong theist stating that God is 100 percent probable and 7 being a strong atheist stating, "I know there is no God", then he is a 6, but leaning towards a 7. He states that he is, "agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden." I believe that to make a brash statement such as, "I don't think, I know," is arrogance at it's fullest, and maybe that is why he doesn't choose a 7. I think I'd have to go with a 6.5 though for myself. Of course we cannot "disprove" Santa Claus, but I think we all have a pretty good indication that he doesn't exist, and when you actually learn Darwinian evolution, I think we can honestly tell ourselves that it would take quite the malevolent Creator to choose evolution by natural selection as His/Her means of creating the "prize" beings. And then you have the possibility that we are living in a computer simulation controlled by a future civilization.....who knows?
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"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
-Friedrich Nietzsche