Science & You

Episode #23 Is God Dead? Or Just Improbable?


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By one estimate, there is a 67% chance that God exists.  This seemed too high of an estimate for the editor of Skeptic magazine.  So he used his own numbers in the calculation and came up with a, shall we say, more skeptical estimate of 2%.  What he seems not to grasp is that this 1 out of 50 chance that God exists is actually billions of times more likely, or probable to be true, than his evolutionary faith that a single, small but functional  protein, made of specific amino acids, could form by random chance.  Given this fact, whose faith, then, is the more improbable?  Uplook Magazine December 2004, p.18.  References:  Shermer, M, "God's Number is Up" Skeptic, July 2004, p 46.;  Hoyle, F and Wickramisinghe, C. "Where Microbes Boldly Went."  New Scientist. 91:412-415, 1981; Morris H. The Biblical Basis of Modern Science. Baker Book House, 1984.

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Science & YouBy Dr. Michael Windheuser, Ph.D.

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