Peter_de_Blanc comments on Navigating disagreement: How to keep your eye on the evidence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 26 April 2010 07:02:15PM 13 points [-]

However, as an Atheist as opposed to an agnostic, you have declared there is absolutely no higher being. If you are every bit as unwilling to examine your own beliefs as he is, you are no less fundamentalist

Why is it that if you say it'll rain tomorrow, people assume you mean p=0.75 or something, but if you say there's no god, people assume you mean p=1? Are we supposed to answer every question with, "I'm agnostic about that"?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 26 April 2010 07:26:19PM 2 points [-]

that's an interesting question. In the case of atheism, it's probably by parallel with the religious people who are certain that there is a God. I don't know whether there are religious people who are almost but not entirely certain that there is a God.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 26 April 2010 07:22:20PM 1 point [-]

Amen, brother!