RE: Probability of God's existence → zero
May 1, 2010 at 3:07 pm
(This post was last modified: May 1, 2010 at 3:12 pm by Fluké.)
(April 26, 2010 at 5:01 pm)theVOID Wrote: Fluke, you listed 6 attributes for God, each of which makes that particular configuration more improbable, but you as an individual have millions of attributes, by your reasoning you are far more unlikely to exist than god.
I don't follow this reasoning.
It isn't merely the number of attributes but the nature of attributes we are dealing with.
For a human being to find a person who has hazelnut hair, living in London etc … isn’t even remotely comparable to the attributes of being the maker of the universe, all-good etc …
(April 27, 2010 at 1:02 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote:Quote:We can now say that there is a very infinitesimal chance that God exists. An absolutely infinitesimal chance can be ignored and rounded to zero as not being statistically significant.
LOL @ rounded off.
You conclude that God almost certainly exists. I also think this. You then 'round it off', well you can do what you like with your 'rounding off' but you can't just 'magic it into zero' lol. He almost certainly doesn't exist, that is clearly very different to absolutely certainly, definitely non-existent. The probability of God cannot be proven to be zero insofar as I can tell, so to say the probability is zero is intellectually dishonest and claiming more than you can know
It is impossible to absolutely disprove God insofar as I can tell, for he is absolutely undetectable and his possible existence is indistinguishable from his possible non-existence.
He's just a lot more fucking likely to not exist than to exist
EvF
I am baffled by your thinking that I somehow said:
He almost certainly doesn't exist, that is clearly very different to absolutely certainly, definitely non-existent.
What on Earth lead you to draw that bizarre conclusion? But you are quite right in saying it is an absolutely impossible conclusion to make.
My thread, as you can see by the title, is “Probability of God's existence → zero”. I am not saying he doesn’t empirically exist, but what I am saying is that the PROBABILITY tends to zero. In other words, I am pointing out how VERY unluckily it is.