That's easy. Just pray to them and eliminate the ones that don't respond positively.Crumple wrote:It is clear we have too many gods. Some must be fakes. But can we eliminate all the fakes wihout risking losing the genuine article?
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Is it possible to automate the process to save some time? There are too many Gods.Gawdzilla wrote:That's easy. Just pray to them and eliminate the ones that don't respond positively.Crumple wrote:It is clear we have too many gods. Some must be fakes. But can we eliminate all the fakes wihout risking losing the genuine article?
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Praybot.comCrumple wrote:Is it possible to automate the process to save some time? There are too many Gods.Gawdzilla wrote:That's easy. Just pray to them and eliminate the ones that don't respond positively.Crumple wrote:It is clear we have too many gods. Some must be fakes. But can we eliminate all the fakes wihout risking losing the genuine article?
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Re: "50-50 chance" needs to go.
Are you talking about Schroedinger's God?Crumple wrote:That one over there not doing much. I think it may be dead?Geoff wrote:Which god?Gawdzilla wrote:I'm listening to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLtS_fU3u_A&NR=1 and the fundy keeps saying "There's a 50-50 chance" of God being real, either he is or he isn't. That is just wrong, of course, but it got me thinking. From now on I'll be using "The chances range between 0% and 100%, and you'll have to show that it's actually 50% before we proceed".
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My God!Geoff wrote:Which god?Gawdzilla wrote:I'm listening to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLtS_fU3u_A&NR=1 and the fundy keeps saying "There's a 50-50 chance" of God being real, either he is or he isn't. That is just wrong, of course, but it got me thinking. From now on I'll be using "The chances range between 0% and 100%, and you'll have to show that it's actually 50% before we proceed".
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Oh. GIN!JimC wrote:My God!Geoff wrote:Which god?Gawdzilla wrote:I'm listening to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLtS_fU3u_A&NR=1 and the fundy keeps saying "There's a 50-50 chance" of God being real, either he is or he isn't. That is just wrong, of course, but it got me thinking. From now on I'll be using "The chances range between 0% and 100%, and you'll have to show that it's actually 50% before we proceed".
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Re: "50-50 chance" needs to go.
Uh, uh, I call "Poe!"
The principle of insufficient reason only applies in the absence of information, and thus is a statement about our ignorance, not about the probabilities.
Given that the base rate for homosexuality is in the 12% range, I find it rather unlikely that the incidence among the clergy approaches 50%.
As to using prayer as a means of differentiating between real and imaginary gods, I must let you know that my god has consistently been answering my prayers for as long as I have believed in him; the answer just happens to be "no", but at least I can take comfort that he's listening.
The principle of insufficient reason only applies in the absence of information, and thus is a statement about our ignorance, not about the probabilities.
Given that the base rate for homosexuality is in the 12% range, I find it rather unlikely that the incidence among the clergy approaches 50%.
As to using prayer as a means of differentiating between real and imaginary gods, I must let you know that my god has consistently been answering my prayers for as long as I have believed in him; the answer just happens to be "no", but at least I can take comfort that he's listening.
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A Poe is someone imitating a fundamentalist so effectively that you can't tell the difference.
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Re: "50-50 chance" needs to go.
there is 50-50 of flat earthers being the spawn of Cthulhu, either that or they are cultists.Seraph wrote:There's a 50-50 chance of the earth being flat. Either it is or it isn't.
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Re: "50-50 chance" needs to go.
So some fundy has heard about Unwin's silly book and is parroting... Why am I not surprised? 
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