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Og · 10-01-2007, 06:35 AM

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Originally Posted by WilliamBlue

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Originally Posted by Mortalsfool

A fifty percent probability for there being a God is counter balanced by the preponderance of evidence that weighs on the Nothingness view. The fifty percent for afterlife, stands alone on mankind’s demand that subjective experience be recognized and valued as a possibility; possibilities that imagine the interaction and influence from some Higher Power. In this way man’s unsatisfied reasoning abilities demand that an equal value be imparted to the equation under the name of Hope. No basis of faith could be founded without the other possibility being at least equal in probability considering the lack of evidence on either side.

I don't see it anywhere near a 50/50 proposition especially if you are talking about a personal God. I see plenty of evidence that is against it and very little for. I also say the same for an afterlife. I have had Christians tell me that if I am wrong then I am risking hell and damnation so I should just do it for that reason alone, but that would go against my character and I would also be a hypocrite and if there is a Christian God he would know I was a hypocrite, so it wouldn't work anyway

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Most of the agnostics I know are atheist when it comes to personal gods and afterlives.

Furthermore, there is a 0% chance that a separate personal individual god exists. This is not the way our universe is constructed. And the notion that 50/50 is the default stance is the same crap that produces pundits in modern news media and gives people the false notion that in order to have discussion, you need 2 idiots with opposite opinions. Probabilities are derived from facts. What facts are you using to define 50/50? The undisprovable claims of theists are, by definition, undefined probability. They have no value.

The notion that 50/50 is the basic stance when lacking any evidence one way or another is absolutely absurd.