The Spectrum of Probability for the Existence of God - Page 2

compiledkernel · 05-14-2007

Yahweh/Elohim/God is All OmniPowerful, Omniscient, and therefore by account Undefinable and Limitless. It is the faith that Christians take in Yahweh being purely Good and incapable of evil that defies the very meaning of it. Yahweh/Elohim/God is the creator of all, even in itself, Abject Evil -- Satan. And not only did Yahweh create adject evil, but also did it aware of such creation.

By this fact alone it makes the believablity of such an idea as difficult at best.

SigmaX · 05-14-2007

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Originally Posted by compiledkernel

It is the faith that Christians take in Yahweh being purely Good and incapable of evil that defies the very meaning of it.

By this fact alone it makes the believablity of such an idea as difficult at best.

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"It is childishly easy to overcome the problem of evil."
-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, 108.

But I do agree that gymnastics are required -- some more paletable then others.

SigmaX

JoshJ · 05-14-2007

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Originally Posted by mdr

JoshJ
Handy is from Oz - meaning Australia I would assume.
Last time I looked we were part of the Western world in a geopolit)ical sense.
Physically there is a debate here whether it is Asia or Oceania

Yes, that's why I left out Australia, because I find it somewhat awkward to include Australia with America and Europe- socially speaking, Australia is close enough to US/Canada/Europe.[/quote]

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btw I would also hope to assume that you include the United Kingdom in Europe? There are a few other major English speaking countries too (South Africa, New Zealand) and a lot of smaller ones.

Yes, England is in Europe. Why wouldn't it be?

South Africa isn't really a major english-speaking "region" in the sense that I meant, and NZ may as well be part of Australia from an outsider's POV.

Moniker42 · 05-15-2007

Just reading the poll results, we have twice as many atheists as theists as far as the Western God is concerned

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Originally Posted by JoshJ

Yes, England is in Europe. Why wouldn't it be?

South Africa isn't really a major english-speaking "region" in the sense that I meant, and NZ may as well be part of Australia from an outsider's POV.

Canada?

View Poll Results: Which viewpoint most closely represents your own strength of belief in God?
1.00: Strong theist. 100% possibility of God. In the words of C.G. Jung, 'I do not believe, I know"	12	25.00%
2.00: Very high probability 'I cannot know for certain, but I strongly believe in God '	3	6.25%
3.00: Higher than 50 per cent but not very high. Technically agnostic but leaning towards theism.	2	4.17%
4.00: Exactly 50 per cent. Completely impartial agnostic.	3	6.25%
5.00: Lower than 50 per cent but not very low. Technically agnostic but leaning towards atheism.	4	8.33%
6.00: Very low probability, but short of zero. De facto atheist.	16	33.33%
7:00: Strong atheist. 'I know there is no God, with the same conviction as Jung "knows" there is one	8	16.67%
Voters: 48. You may not vote on this poll

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compiledkernel Moderator Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 145	Re: The Spectrum of Probability for the Existence of God Yahweh/Elohim/God is All OmniPowerful, Omniscient, and therefore by account Undefinable and Limitless. It is the faith that Christians take in Yahweh being purely Good and incapable of evil that defies the very meaning of it. Yahweh/Elohim/God is the creator of all, even in itself, Abject Evil -- Satan. And not only did Yahweh create adject evil, but also did it aware of such creation. By this fact alone it makes the believablity of such an idea as difficult at best.
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