Posted: Jan 07, 2015 10:11 pm
Rumraket wrote:... it is senseless to talk about the probability of the evidence on a hypotheses when we don't know the true probability distribution to begin with.
I prefer to talk about these things in terms of imaginable possibilities rather than quantifiable probabilities. To talk about the 'probability of God existing' is to fall for the soft-soap of the apologist: and if one admits that the probability of God existing is incredibly low--so low as to be almost negligible even--we're still effectively agreeing to hold the door open for God (even if it's just a chink). By such things as this apologists attempt to shift a portion of their burden.