[extropy-chat] Atheism in Decline

[Russell Wallace]

On Mon,  7 Mar 2005 18:44:50 -0800 (PST), "Hal Finney" <hal at finney.org> wrote:
> But is this right?  Is the only difference between atheists and agnostics
> the numerical estiamte they would give for the probability that God
> exists?  Or is there something else about this difference, something
> qualitative which Bayesian probability reasoning doesn't capture?

Speaking for this agnostic only: Not only do I not know the
probability that God exists (even if one picks some specific
definition thereof), I don't even know whether it _has_ a probability;
I'm not aware of any reason to believe the concept of probability
meaningfully applies here.

- Russell