Where do you stand on the existence of God?

[Excited Penguin]

Cancer is either entirely found in nature, or it came about through the free will of people themselves - polluting the air, adding chemicals to our foods, not taking care of our planet, etc.

Either way, I don't see it as God working like a wizard with a magic wand, inflicting people with it for some kind of purpose. I see it as Him allowing the natural course of things to happen, just as He did so when we evolved. And I explained in my other post why I do not believe this makes him an evil being.

You seem to be implying the universe is something distinct from god. But wouldn't you say god created everything. Then, he basically is everything. We don't live in the universe then, we live in God. Everything that is evil is god. It couldn't be anything else but God, since he created everything. He knew what the natural course of things would be when he created it. So either god is a very bored dude on his laptop, playing a very cool game called Universe, reached the Terra/human age stage of the game, or he's a product of imagination. Which one of those is more likely?

[Excited Penguin]

If I consider the probability that there is some sort of being that does closely resemble one of the story book gods, I would rate it as significantly less likely than every member of ISIS all independently and simultaneously deciding to throw down their weapons and instead interpret Islam to be completely peaceful and loving.

I'm more concerned that my wife might suddenly attack and kill me for no reason than I am about Yahweh being real. And I have absolutely no reason to believe the former would ever happen.

It seems to me like you do worry about your wife doing that. You're just suppressing the thought. Interesting.

[robvalue]

No, I don't. I came up with it as an example of something that's least likely to happen out of things that could conceivably happen.

[Excited Penguin]

You do at some level.

[Redbeard The Pink]

You do at some level.

Right...only slightly more than he worries about Gaud existing. He said that already.

[Mr Greene]

For the record 6 on the Dawkins scale.

Pretty certain Abrahamic Monotheism is bunch of lies from the start at this point.
Deism is indistinguishable from worshipping the Strong Nuclear Force.
Hinduism/Greek/Norse etc. requires more research for a higher confidence interval.

[Whateverist]

Hey, CL, was the sex real real, or God real?

More importantly was it hetero sex with the hubby?  Or hawt atheist lesbo sex with Morgan?

[Longhorn]

Which god?

It doesn't matter.

Yes it does. Theistic god - 99.99+% sure doesn't exist. Deistic god - wouldn't notice either way, but about 75% sure doesn't exist.

Cthulhu, exists for realises 1 billion percent

[Whateverist]

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.

[robvalue]

There is a difference between feeling certain but being willing to consider new evidence and arguments, and just having your mind made up regardless and not being interested in the truth.