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Irreligious wrote
Too accommodating, in my opinion. Why does no one ever ask these people what a god is supposed to be before conceding that one cannot know the unknowable?
You certainly can't investigate theists claims' of an alleged god. They can't either.
I'm sorry, but placing a probability on such an absurdly unknowable claim is the same thing many of us here derided Jerry for doing. I respect Dawkins' intelligence and his decades long battle to wage the good fight in support of science over unfounded superstition, but I'm not going to applaud him on this one.
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Good points, and I agree, no applause here either.
But I did not mean to imply a discreet or quantitative probability. I am not counting on the implosion of our sun in my lifetime, nor am I fretting over the possible existence of an evil Yawhe or whateveritsnameisn't that is waiting to reap my soul when I die. My point is, I think it is highly unlikely, so I don't live my life according to such remote possibilities. There are too many far more likely scenarios that occupy my worrying time.