Scale Of Human Judgements About The Existance Of God
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Thu Mar 13, 08 01:06 AM
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Richard Dawkins in his book "The God Delusion" gives a very interesting scale that contains the spectrum of the probabilities of the human judgements about the existence of god (understanding god as the following hypothesis: "there exists a superhuman, supernatural intelligence who deliberately designed and created the universe and everything in it, including us").
Although I don´t like to define myself (to define is to limit) I could say that I´m a solid 6 in the scale...which one are you?
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Scale
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Name
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Description
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1
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Strong theist
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100 per cent probability of God. In the words of C. G. Jung, "I do not believe, I know."
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2
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De facto* theist
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Very high probability but short of 100 per cent. "I cannot know for certain, but I strongly believe in God and live my life on the assumption that he is there."
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3
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Technically agnostic
but leaning towards theism
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Higher than 50 per cent but not very high. "I am very uncertain, but I am inclined to believe in God."
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4
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Completely impartial agnostic
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Exactly 50 per cent. "God's existence and non-existence are exactly equiprobable."
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5
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Technically agnostic
but leaning towards atheism
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Lower than 50 per cent but not very low. "I don't know whether God exists but I'm inclined to be sceptical."
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6
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De facto atheist
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Very low probability, but short of zero. "I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there."
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7
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Strong atheist
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"I know there is no God, with the same conviction as Jung "knows" there is one."
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* De facto = in reality or fact.
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Link:
http://blog.bitcomet.com/monti84metal/post_19303/
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