The Hayter-Braeloch Scale

[Caecilian]

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I guess I'd be a 4.5 on that scale. The existence and/or non-existence of god(s) probably cannot be conclusively established, but I am pretty certain that there are none.

I'm probably around 4.8

I think that there are a number of arguments that point towards the impossibility of god, but none of them are entirely conclusive.

So what you both meant was '4'.



I love how people try to create new places on the scale despite the fact it doesn't measure this. Paul invented a new metric of "certainty", whilst Caecilian decided the more arguments you had, the closer to 5 you were

Just to clarify, this scale has 5 points on it. You are one of the 5. It only measures belief and your view on whether the existence of gods can be conclusively established. It doesn't measure the number of arguments, or how certain you are.

@tavarish:

Deism still involves a God, which is why we list it under theism (and explain theism as any concept of God, including the ones you mentioned).

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No.

Certainty is always matter of degree. If you're trying to apply a scale with discrete values to certainty, then I'm afraid your scale is simply wrong-headed.

Here are some things that I'm certain of:

1. That my friend Sharon likes me a lot.
2. That my mother's name is Marian.
3. That the physical world exists.

I'm more certain of 2 than I am of 1, and more certain of 3 than I am of 2.

However, even in the case of 3, I don't have some kind of absolute certainty. Absolute certainty could only come from absolute knowledge, and thats something that we humans simply don't have.