Forecast: cloudy, 67% chance of God
Books, Links, Religion March 23rd, 2004 | Hey, all you atheists out there — looks like you’ve only got about a 33% chance of being right. According to Dr. Stephen Unwin, there is a 67% chance that God exists.
Dr Stephen Unwin has used a 200-year-old formula to calculate the probability of the existence of an omnipotent being. Bayes’ Theory is usually used to work out the likelihood of events, such as nuclear power failure, by balancing the various factors that could affect a situation.
The Manchester University graduate, who now works as a risk assessor in Ohio, said the theory starts from the assumption that God has a 50/50 chance of existing, and then factors in the evidence both for and against the notion of a higher being.
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[See also: 1602 | Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman’s ‘Goliath’ | American Gods | Books, sir…books. ]
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March 23rd, 2004 at 12:08 pm
And it’s only US$16.07! What a bargain! I wanna know if the avacado and aardvark are listed as Pro: or Anti: percentages? (Depending on which movie you watch…)
March 23rd, 2004 at 8:55 pm
:: points :: your adbox is broken. it’s displaying some random ad rather than the book’s cover. Just thought I’d tell you.
March 23rd, 2004 at 9:00 pm
And now, just because I had to comment on that fact, it decided to properly display the ad again.