What do you believe the probability of god existing is?

Question

only the ones humans believe in, not just 'any god', thats way to murky to tack a probability onto. on a scale of 0 - 1.

0 = absolutely does not exist. completely sure.
.5=i dont know, maybe, maybe not....
1= i know for a fact that he/it/they does/do.

feel free to elaborate.

Answer 1

.01 only because we can't prove it doesn't exist... but the probability is very slim.

Answer 2

1

Answer 3

0
ZERO

The gods that humanity has contrived are held captive in ancient 'holy' books. Therefore that god is not able to be more than that book's claims of it. Such as, if the Bible says that god has a son then there is no possibility of the Biblical god not having a son. If it says that he created the universe in 6 earth days, then the Biblical god would had to have created the universe in 6 Earth days and no more. If it implies that the universe is roughly 6 thousand years old, and it does imply that, then there is no possibility of it being far older if the Biblical account is to be true. These are limitations.

That being said we know today that there are hundreds of thousands of layers of ice that are being drilled from ice core samples.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4121

One layer for every year that has gone by. This alone says that the Bible is incorrect, that the Earth is much older than the Bible claims it is. The only way that Christians can deny this is by denial of the verifiable facts. This they must do if they are to retain their fantasy about how the world works. They do so because it makes them comfortable. Truth is not about what makes one comfortable. What is Factual is what is True no matter how uncomfortable those facts make us.

Answer 4

The probability of a context free closed system state uniquely existing on its own is two raised to the negative k power where k is the Kolmogorov Complexity of the system in bits.

For example take a system with one bit, there are two states on or off, the probability of the state on existing with no exterior context is 1/2. With two bits the probability of any given state is 1/4. with three bits we get 1/8 etc.

Since theists define a context free god which is infinitely complex the probability of finding a context free god in such an infinitely complex state is zero.

Having concluded the theist god does not exist, what can we say about the existence of the universe or reality as a whole.

Since reality as a whole includes all exterior context by definition we can conclude reality as a whole is trivially simple. Furthermore we can conclude the universe we see either as exterior context ( is part of a greater whole ) or is itself simple.

Answer 5

0

While you cannot directly prove a negative, you can prove absence of a necessary condition and as such disprove. This is the use of the contrapositive.

I've given the proof elsewhere, but it closes the door on the possibility of a deity. It's a pity so few understand it when it's a single application of modus tollens. I think too many people want to believe free will exists when it's an impossibility in this universe.

Answer 6

Definitely 0.

Answer 7

taking all of the gods humans believe in, currently and in the past, and allowing some wiggle room with the details of the god's existence, i would take bets at a googolplex to one against.

Answer 8

Depends on what your definition of god is. For the biblical god it's 0.

Answer 9

1. No elaboration necessary.

Answer 10

0 The Biblical god is imaginary in my opinion.

Answer 11

As regards the personal God of Christianity I don't regard it as remotely possible that he could exist.