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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 03/20/2004 : 13:51:34
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It seems that someone has figured the odds of God's existance. I'd guess it's the Christian version, as nothing was said about any other.
Also, he's selling a book, which could explain a lot.
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Turns out, there is a 67 percent, or about 2-to-1, probability of God's existence, a number that "favors the existence of God, but not that compellingly," Unwin, who will speak and sign copies of his book at Sam Weller Books next week, said in a telephone interview from his home in Ohio.
"I would have been surprised if it'd been near zero or 100," he said, though "If you listen to atheists or theists, you would think it was closer to one of those numbers."
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Mar/03202004/saturday/149486.asp
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 03/20/2004 : 18:27:14 [Permalink]
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Unwin avoids getting bogged down in too much science, though, and says readers can skip most of the math parts without missing the point.
That a number lower than 67% would not have sold as many books ??
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But most people, he says, tend to misunderstand his book without even reading it,
Such as how he could possibly use testimonials and opinions in mathematical formulas. |
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