* Marco (gaedol@xxxxxxxxx) [131017 21:27]:
> 'cause I'm the fucking founder. So they say.
> And say we all.
>
So say we all.
Hail Shub Niggurath !
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From a mathematical standpoint I find it remarkable that those in
possession of an argument for the existence of something seem to be able
to get unique existence out of the same argument. Plantinga has made a
career of creating God from logic and statistics. If, as he argues, it
is likely that an entity exists meeting our criteria for godliness, then
it would seem even more likely that there are say a hundred of them than
one, and more likely still a thousand.
Given the size of the universe, any predicate whose satisfiability is
within the realm of possibility is highly likely to be satisfied not
just once but many times. Any conception of God that happens, for
whatever combination of reasons, to rule out the possibility of
membership of God in this universe ensures of course that God does not
exist in it. Any other conception however is highly likely to admit
many instances. By far the least likely outcome is exactly one God,
whatever conception of God one uses. Monotheism is therefore the least
plausible of all possible religious beliefs. That more than half the
planet is monotheistic is yet another bit of evidence for the thesis
that humans aren't very good at probability.
Vaughan Pratt on FOM
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