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Do you believe God exists?
1) God is a being, that one can have a personal relationship. A person God. 30%  30%  [ 55 ]
2) God is an impersonal force that guides reality as it is. He decrees our laws of physics, but does not intervene to break them. 12%  12%  [ 22 ]
3) God does not exist. Reality can be explained by scientific inquiry and the scientific method in by itself. 33%  33%  [ 61 ]
4) I am not sure. There is the possibility that God does exist, or does not. We must follow the preponderance of evidence when drawing our conclusion. 25%  25%  [ 47 ]
Total votes : 185

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01 Jul 2016, 3:26 pm

There is no evidence that any gods exist, so I'm an atheist.



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01 Jul 2016, 4:57 pm

In guessing like all polls, this one does not truly represent reality.

IMO there are as mentioned more agonist-ism. < not a word?


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01 Jul 2016, 8:12 pm

drlaugh wrote:
In guessing like all polls, this one does not truly represent reality.

IMO there are as mentioned more agonist-ism. < not a word?

The word you're looking for is agnosticism. ;)


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02 Jul 2016, 5:13 am

The "gods" I have read about in some religions sound a lot more like alien warlords then benevolent "gods". I do not believe in a "god" that tortures people eternally or reincarnates people as animals.



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02 Jul 2016, 11:40 am

Mr. B.

Thanks for finding the lost word.

Future reference note to self.
Tony tony look around
Something's lost
And can't be found
Tony= Saint Anthony
Patron Saint of lost things.


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04 Aug 2016, 11:58 pm

If you want to read some decent critiques of the fine tuning argument, here it is: http://www.colyvan.com/papers/finetuning.pdf


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17 Aug 2016, 2:59 pm

Blessed are those that are persecuted for righteous sake.

Love and prayers
me - a believer
The books (66)are much better than the movies. 8)


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17 Aug 2016, 3:01 pm



Penrose's Conclusion?

Chances of the universe's low entropy coming about by chance is 1 in 10^10^123.


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19 Aug 2016, 4:44 am

Deltaville wrote:


Penrose's Conclusion?

Chances of the universe's low entropy coming about by chance is 1 in 10^10^123.


This conclusion is unfounded; we have only one sample size (our own universe), so we have no idea about the effects of (slightly) differing universal constants, nor do we know how large a "small" difference can be.

with a sample size of 1, it is impossible to give chances on anything, so this number is baseless.

also, the chance of me writing this message is even smaller than that 1 in 10^10^123, yet it happened.



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19 Aug 2016, 3:10 pm

izzeme wrote:
Deltaville wrote:


Penrose's Conclusion?

Chances of the universe's low entropy coming about by chance is 1 in 10^10^123.


This conclusion is unfounded; we have only one sample size (our own universe), so we have no idea about the effects of (slightly) differing universal constants, nor do we know how large a "small" difference can be.

with a sample size of 1, it is impossible to give chances on anything, so this number is baseless.

also, the chance of me writing this message is even smaller than that 1 in 10^10^123, yet it happened.


1) Because we can do theoretical physics, we can tell the effects of changing the universal constants.

2) It does not matter if we have a sample size of one - that's what Bayesian probability is for.

3) The likelihood of you writing this post as a statistically unlikely fact is, in a probabilistic fashion, impossible to analogize.


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19 Aug 2016, 9:40 pm

Of course not, I'm autistic. :P

Believe whatever you want, it's all cool.