(June 1, 2012 at 3:22 pm)apophenia Wrote: I don't see how a Christian, in all honesty, would characterize his belief in God as the idea that He "probably exists."
Yet every now and then you meet one. I imagine it would take someone who sees the lack of objective evidence for belief in God but decides, given the lack of evidence to the contrary, to believe anyway. A true leap of faith with the emphasis on the leaping. We all have to assume some things and my bias is to assume as little as possible, but I'm not ready to declare my bias as the gold standard.
I personally find these guys much more admirable than those who play lawyer with the bible. There is less self delusion going on and usually less proselytizing too, providing they can remain cognizant of their leap and not let it concretize into certainty.
