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I have done the math
Zig Ziglar quote
Post 111. October 12, 2020 continued . . . .
The Probability of God
Faith Math vs Skepticism
Although the ability to discern what’s good for self, is inherent in all living creatures, only humans have words for those glimpses of future ramifications. Nevertheless, I don’t agree with Unwin that such explicit knowledge of Goodness is worth ten points in favor of divine intervention. According to Isaac Asimov, even robots are programmed to look-
Therefore, I doubt that his “faith math” will have any impact on the faithless. Though it might support the questioning faith of a believer, with the implication that the existence of God has been conclusively proven with hard numbers. But that’s the problem with this whole exercise : the numbers are not “hard”. They are tainted with prejudiced beliefs. This is not to say that Bayesian calculations are useless for less cosmic questions. Since most of our reasoning begins with prior assumptions, going through such a logical procedure may reveal some of our implicit biases11.
Unwin hopes that his calculations will supplement the faith of his fellow Christians. Yet, he denies that “faith is mathemat-
As Unwin implies, even the Atheist “faith” of a godless materialist, like Richard Dawkins, may also be based on an intuitive estimate of the probability that our world could not exist except for some supernatural power. However, I suspect, that, if Dawkins used Unwin’s method of calculating divine probability, his answer would be quite different. Is that due to Reason, or to Willfulness, or to Prejudice? Probably! Conse-
End of Post 111
I have done the math
10. Laws of Robotics :
Third Law : A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
11, Implicit Bias :
“Research on “implicit bias” suggests that people can act on the basis of prejudice and stereotypes without intending to do so.”
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/implicit-
12. Faith Math :
“Faith is the most fundamental of the math-
https://mindmatters.ai/2020/01/faith-
13. Reason serves Will :
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
___David Hume
14. Enformationism Thesis :
It’s not something to believe, but something to think.
http://enformationism.info/enformationism.info/
The Probability of God
A Simple Calculation
That Proves the
Ultimate Truth
Steven D. Unwin
Physicist, Risk Management
“Since the existence of God is the ultimate uncertainty, and probabilistic analysis is the means of addressing uncertainties . . .
The probability of God
begs to be computed ”