(November 26, 2015 at 5:30 am)excitedpenguin Wrote:(November 24, 2015 at 12:07 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: 6 on the Dawkins scale.
I consider the hypothesis so ridiculous and lacking evidence that I am essentially a 6.999999.
7 is logically indefensible.
I feel the same way about any god that I presume you feel about Thor or Mithra.
Tell me about something that wouldn't be logically indefensible as a 7 on that scale. That's why I would call myself a 7. There's a time and place for allowing uncertainty. In this context, I'm perfectly confortable with taking that further step to a 7.
Comfort isn't much of an indicator. I have no doubt that Drich is mighty comfy as a 1 and would be much less comfortable if he tried to adopt any other position.
Certainty itself is probably the most comfortable position to adopt. But uncertainty toward unsupported claims, while less comfortable, creates less distortion in the brain.