{"id":5982,"date":"2016-12-04T04:02:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T04:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/04\/on-the-probability-of-god\/"},"modified":"2016-12-04T04:02:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T04:02:16","slug":"on-the-probability-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/04\/on-the-probability-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Probability of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does it make sense to ask how probable God's existence is?  I don't think so.  God is more like truth than like a<\/em> truth. One can sensibly ask after the probability of, say, The Dems will take back the House in 2018. <\/em>  It would make sense to say that this is likely, unlikely, more likely than not; that it has a 40-50% chance, etc.  <\/span><\/p>\n

But to ask after the probability of there being truths at all is to ask an incoherent question.  Suppose someone were to say: it is more likely than not that there are truths, or: the likelihood of there being some truths is 27.5%<\/span><\/p>\n

You can see that this is nonsense.  <\/span><\/p>\n

What I write on this blog and elsewhere implies that this is also nonsense with respect to God.  God is not a being among beings, but Being itself.  Would it makes sense to say that the probability of there being Being itself is 27.5%?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Does it make sense to ask how probable God's existence is?  I don't think so.  God is more like truth than like a truth. One can sensibly ask after the probability of, say, The Dems will take back the House in 2018.   It would make sense to say that this is likely, unlikely, more likely … Continue reading “On the Probability of God”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}