RE: A One In An infinity Chance That God Exists. What Do You Guys Think?
June 23, 2012 at 2:57 pm
(June 22, 2012 at 9:45 pm)cato123 Wrote:Taken from askmathematician.com "If the evidence E that we have is really unlikely to have occurred given the existence of a particular god G (but not so improbable otherwise), then that will tend to make the god G less likely." The equation is God/Evidence. Evidence according to Dictionary.com is "something that makes plain or clear; an indication or sign." Therefore, the existence of God/a infinity amount of other things that created the universe is a valid probability equaling to a one in an infinity chance that there is a God http://www.askamathematician.com/2011/05...od-exists/(June 22, 2012 at 7:06 pm)amateurlyinsightful Wrote: I don't see what's wrong with the way I assigned the probability originally
Probabily concerns reality. Probability attempts to calculate the odds/chance that a certain outcome will arrive based on known inputs and known mechanisms. You misused probabilty by invoking unknown inputs (creators of any sort) and ignored the creation method; therefore, your probability is meaningless.
Take the often used example of rolling a die (cube). The input is the die and its characteristics. The mechanism/process is the person rolling the die. We know there are six potential outcomes. The probability of rolling any one of the six is 1/6. We can then get fancy and figure the probability of rolling a certain number with a certain number of rolls.
This methodology cannot apply to non-existents. This is what is wrong with your assignment of probability to imagined creators. No input and no mechanism.