Vaniver comments on Nonmindkilling open questions - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Yvain 23 March 2012 04:23PM

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Comment author: Vaniver 23 March 2012 07:46:25PM 17 points [-]

Or if I were to try the existence of God, I predict half the population would say it's 100% certain God exists, and the other half would say the opposite.

That sounds like a massive overestimate of the percentage of atheists.

Comment author: Zetetic 23 March 2012 10:04:22PM *  7 points [-]

Not to mention a massive underestimation of intermediate positions, e.g. the doubting faithful, agnostics, people with consciously chosen, reasonable epistemology etc. This sets that number to 0. I've met plenty of more liberal theists that didn't assert 100% certainty.

Comment author: CharlesR 24 March 2012 07:47:39PM 0 points [-]

It depends what you mean by 'God'.