RE: What makes something a faith?
April 28, 2013 at 6:01 pm
(April 28, 2013 at 6:50 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: You make it sound like the chances are 50/50, either there is a god or there isn't.But this is like saying your chances of winning the lottery are 50/50, either you'll win or you wont. This is obviously rubbish.
I consider either equally plausible, but only because I am being generous to serious thinkers that have reached different conclusions than I have. But if it is, as you say, a numbers game then, please, tell me how you calculate the probabilities.
(April 28, 2013 at 6:50 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: God is such an unlikely thing to exist that it does not equate to the "not god" view of the universe which is supported by every single piece of verified science.
Only if you throw away everything in your calculus that does not support your conviction that science explains all. Science only deals with the quantifiable. You cannot dismiss the qualitative aspect of life. The results of any process that, by its working definition, dismisses half of the evidence cannot be taken as an adequate understanding of everything.
