Re: GOD=G_uv BAYESIAN P=99.9 %

From: Pyriform (nobody_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:41:52 +0100

The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> Well personally I think the program proves absolutely nothing.
> How one leaps from
>
> "a program produces a certain set of results"
>
> to
>
> "God exists, must be worshipped, and wants your first-born daughter"
>
> is far from clear.

Of course not. It's a parlour game, nothing more.

That it has proved so lucrative shows how desperate believers are for
the slightest sign that their faith is justified (rather undermining the
whole point of faith, I'd have thought). We see the same thing when
people flock to visit weeping statues, or slices of fruit whose seeds
are arranged in a pattern bearing a remote resemblance to Mother
Theresa...

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