Posts: 3432
Threads: 102
Joined: November 13, 2013
Reputation:
59
How atheist are you
November 15, 2013 at 8:23 am
Was listening to Prof Dawkins on the way to work this morning. He described a spectrum of agnosticism from
1, KNOWING there is a god,
2 Being almost certain there is
3 more probable than not,
4, even odds,
5, more probable than not that there isn't,
6, almost certain there isn't, and
7. KNOWING there is no God.
He described himself as a 6, and cited the celestial teapot, which may or may not be orbiting the sun, as an example (it's probably not but he couldn't be certain).
So my question is, where are you on Dawkins scale?
"Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken."
Sith code
Posts: 1066
Threads: 248
Joined: February 6, 2012
Reputation:
7
RE: How atheist are you
November 15, 2013 at 8:29 am
6.9 I know there is no god unless you can prove one to me.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
Posts: 193
Threads: 1
Joined: September 9, 2013
Reputation:
5
RE: How atheist are you
November 15, 2013 at 8:33 am
I fluctuate frequently between 5- 7
Posts: 5654
Threads: 133
Joined: May 10, 2011
Reputation:
69
RE: How atheist are you
November 15, 2013 at 8:34 am
Number 1. I KNOW the Yoga-Lord exists.
May the power of the Yogage bless you all.
Posts: 879
Threads: 11
Joined: September 17, 2013
Reputation:
31
RE: How atheist are you
November 15, 2013 at 9:27 am
I think this scale is BS. I just don't have any reasons to believe, and that's all. It's totally ridiculous for anyone to claim they know anything- all humans are agnostic whether they admit it or not. Nobody knows. I get tired of theists and atheists who claim to know something that is unknowable. So fuck Dawkins and his stupid scale.
Posts: 10470
Threads: 165
Joined: May 29, 2013
Reputation:
53
RE: How atheist are you
November 15, 2013 at 9:30 am
I think there is indeed a way to know, but we don't know that way yet. So, I am a 6.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
Posts: 3226
Threads: 244
Joined: April 17, 2012
Reputation:
54
RE: How atheist are you
November 15, 2013 at 9:53 am
These numbers represent courics, right?
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
Posts: 4940
Threads: 99
Joined: April 17, 2011
Reputation:
45
RE: How atheist are you
November 15, 2013 at 10:17 am
I'd say I'm about a 6.5 or so. I don't believe in any gods because there is no evidence to show that any ever existed, and I'm firmly convinced that all gods were invented by man. There could be some chance that there is some being way out there that lives beyond space and time, but using Occam's Razor it's most likely that this isn't the case and all ideas of gods came from primitive man trying to explain the world around him.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
![[Image: extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/zf86M5L7/extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg)
