Nobody can be CERTAIN that there is or isn't a god. I have to admit it's possible that there is one, but very unlikely. So you must be able to give your own personal opinion as to what the odds are.
Now and again, I buy a lottery ticket for the Euro lottery. Even though the odds against winning are 100 million to one against. Would you buy a ticket, if the prize was eternal life in paradise?
So what are the odds? A million to one against? or worse?
I can't make a guess.
Help !!
What are the odds on God?
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What are the odds on God?
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Re: What are the odds on God?
I say the odds are 50:50---either there is or there isn't.
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Re: What are the odds on God?
How would you even begin? Any probabilities I've seen, like the ones of Dembski, are based on figures they've pulled out of their arse.
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Re: What are the odds on God?
If it was fifty fifty I'd be in church now, praising like fuck!Gallstones wrote:I say the odds are 50:50---either there is or there isn't.
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Re: What are the odds on God?
Approximately 1 in 10^84
Animavore wrote:How would you even begin? Any probabilities I've seen, like the ones of Dembski, are based on figures they've pulled out of their arse.
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Re: What are the odds on God?
You've got to start somewhere!Animavore wrote:How would you even begin? Any probabilities I've seen, like the ones of Dembski, are based on figures they've pulled out of their arse.
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Re: What are the odds on God?
Ah, you're a Pascalian.mistermack wrote:If it was fifty fifty I'd be in church now, praising like fuck!Gallstones wrote:I say the odds are 50:50---either there is or there isn't.
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Re: What are the odds on God?
WTF ? I was polite to you !!!Gallstones wrote:Ah, you're a Pascalian.mistermack wrote:If it was fifty fifty I'd be in church now, praising like fuck!Gallstones wrote:I say the odds are 50:50---either there is or there isn't.
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Re: What are the odds on God?
Sorry, so sorry.mistermack wrote:WTF ? I was polite to you !!!Gallstones wrote:Ah, you're a Pascalian.mistermack wrote:If it was fifty fifty I'd be in church now, praising like fuck!Gallstones wrote:I say the odds are 50:50---either there is or there isn't.
I am rude because I am American, and I own guns. I don't know any better.
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Re: What are the odds on God?
You'll never know any better, if you don't listen to your betters!!Gallstones wrote: Sorry, so sorry.
I am rude because I am American, and I own guns. I don't know any better.
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Re: What are the odds on God?
mistermack wrote:If it was fifty fifty I'd be in church now, praising like fuck!Gallstones wrote:I say the odds are 50:50---either there is or there isn't.
I'd still be telling him he's a cunt, and that he, his heavenly host and his choir invisible can go and fuck themselves. Fucking tyrant.
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Re: What are the odds on God?
Either is or isn't isn't 50:50.
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Re: What are the odds on God?
Just because there are two options, it doesn't make the probabilities of both equal. I may or may not get eaten by an animatronic dinosaur today, but the chances aren't 50/50.Thinking Aloud wrote:Either is or isn't isn't 50:50.
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Re: What are the odds on God?
Mine had fewer words.Pappa wrote:Just because there are two options, it doesn't make the probabilities of both equal. I may or may not get eaten by an animatronic dinosaur today, but the chances aren't 50/50.Thinking Aloud wrote:Either is or isn't isn't 50:50.
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