Am 23.01.2014 18:05, schrieb Patrick Elliott:

> And, I would argue, with good evidence, that its pretty much impossible
> to have a 50% confidence in the "existence" of a god without either
> being a) disingenuous, or b) completely ignorant of the concept. Worse,
> for those not so heavily invested in thinking that, for some purely
> personal reason, that it ***must*** be true, any actual knowledge or
> information on the subject tends to skew the probabilities heavily in
> favor of like 95% chance, or better of there not being one at all. So,
> again.. I am not seeing either a "wide spectrum", or a coherent
> argument, in the case of those proposing that one exists, for placing
> the number anywhere near the middle, never mind opposite end of the
> spectrum. Not without a whole lot of just plain ignorance, or personal
> desire, being involved.

But that's exactly the point: How confident someone is about the 
existence of a supreme something /is/ painted with personal desire, 
fears, subjective observation, and all sorts of other things.

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