| Block Captain Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Adirondack Park, NY Gender:  Posts: 448 Level up: 92%, 12 Points needed |  |  Thank you bd. Quote: |
"the chances of even one religion being correct about the ultimate reality of the universe is astronomically more unlikely than the figure you gave." Kat
| If it were a purely statistical thing, like guessing the winning lottery number, then I'd embrace your position.
I agree with your assessment of the arithmetic.
But, as you suggest, considering the issue, I suspect even the arithmetic you counterpropose understates the true unlikelihood. Quote: |
"Grow beyond binary thinking, people." myt
| Read between the lines myt.
Specifically, in the context of Pascal's Wager.
It wasn't intended as a metaphysical bottom line.
It was intended to demonstrate that the odds are low.
And as Kat rightly observes, they're vastly lower than that. Quote:
"The word, Agnostic, is a relatively recently coined word which was intended to mean one who is without definitive knowledge of things supernatural, occult, etc.
That is what I am" CF
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CF,
I've posted it before. I'll post it again. Know it or not, believe it or not, like it or not, admit it or not, we are ALL agnostic. None of us KNOWS for sure.
Atheism addresses what we believe, or do not believe.
Agnosticism addresses what we KNOW, or do not know. "Work is the curse of the drinking classes." Oscar Wilde |