I’m skeptical of microbes-to-man evolution and abiogenesis. But if abiogenesis could be demonstrated, or if evolutionary processes could be demonstrated to be capable of producing the kind of complexity we see in biology (e.g. evolutionary algorithms run on supercomputer clusters producing real AI) then I’d probably drift towards atheism.
A God is a very complex entity. Positing one does not, therefore, help to explain biological complexity (unless you have an explanation for God). Even though we don’t know how abiogenesis happened it is still orders of magnitude more likely than God existing given the relative complexities involved. That Christianity is true is also orders of magnitude more unlikely than you and your companions hallucinating your direct revelation—the former being an extraordinarily complex hypothesis and hallucinations and general irrationality being quite common.
Because a God is supernatural any probability assigned to it existing is as arbitrary as any other.
Obviously, if the P=1/3^^^^^3 then it would be absurd to see biogenesis or biological complexity as evidence for God.
But if the P =0.01 then I, for one, see it as very strong evidence.
I see no reason to prefer theism vs. atheism and I consider an extraordinarily low P to be biased towards atheism, but if that rocks your boat, have fun.
That I am irriational and delusional is highly probable, in fact I am sure of it.
But I have no choice but to trust my own faulty brain.
I would certainly not consider you rational if you were to convert to Christianity solely based on reading my story on the internetz.
A God is a very complex entity. Positing one does not, therefore, help to explain biological complexity (unless you have an explanation for God). Even though we don’t know how abiogenesis happened it is still orders of magnitude more likely than God existing given the relative complexities involved. That Christianity is true is also orders of magnitude more unlikely than you and your companions hallucinating your direct revelation—the former being an extraordinarily complex hypothesis and hallucinations and general irrationality being quite common.
Well that is just your biases...
Because a God is supernatural any probability assigned to it existing is as arbitrary as any other.
Obviously, if the P=1/3^^^^^3 then it would be absurd to see biogenesis or biological complexity as evidence for God. But if the P =0.01 then I, for one, see it as very strong evidence.
I see no reason to prefer theism vs. atheism and I consider an extraordinarily low P to be biased towards atheism, but if that rocks your boat, have fun.
That I am irriational and delusional is highly probable, in fact I am sure of it. But I have no choice but to trust my own faulty brain.
I would certainly not consider you rational if you were to convert to Christianity solely based on reading my story on the internetz.
This is really wrong, obviously, but my hopes that the inferential distance was manageable have been dashed. You might start here. I’m done though.