RobinZ comments on Rationality quotes: April 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobinZ 07 April 2010 10:51:26AM 1 point [-]

There is no reason to propose such a being - privileging the hypothesis is when you consider a hypothesis before any evidence has forced you to raise that hypothesis to the level of consideration.

Unless you have a mountain of evidence (and I'm guessing it'll have to be cosmological to support a god that hasn't visibly intervened in the world) already driving you to argue that there might be a god, don't bother proposing the possibility.

Comment author: roundsquare 07 April 2010 11:53:56AM 0 points [-]

Ah, I see what you are saying. Thanks for the explanation. And you are indeed correct.