What are you on the Dawkins scale?

Politics and religion
#1

Since it’s a pretty interesting system, I decided a poll is in order. It’s not perfect, of course, but better than the Christian/atheist split.

  1. Strong Theist: I do not question the existence of God, I KNOW he exists.
  2. De-facto Theist: I cannot know for certain but I strongly believe in God and I live my life on the assumption that he is there.
  3. Weak Theist: I am very uncertain, but I am inclined to believe in God.
  4. Pure Agnostic: God’s existence and non-existence are exactly equiprobable.
  5. Weak Atheist: I do not know whether God exists but I’m inclined to be skeptical.
  6. De-facto Atheist: I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable and I live my life under the assumption that he is not there.
  7. Strong Atheist: I am 100% sure that there is no God.

PS: Brazenly stolen from Damien Falgoust

Where does all that energy go?
#2

I’m really more of a 6.5, as I am sure there is no God. But if I turned out to be wrong I wouldn’t be some jackhole who refused to accept reality.

#3

You are a unique snowflake.

#4

You are all in for a big surprise. That is all I have to say.

#5

Strictly by the wording, I’m a 6, but that’s splitting a very, very fine hair. I think the existence of God is so massively improbable that, practically speaking, I might as well be a 7. But strictly technically, I do allow for the slimmest of possibilities that there might be a God who, for reasons unknown to us, acts exactly as if there wasn’t one at all.

#6

Brain in a jar, BRAIN IN A JAR!

#7

Even Dawkins has said in interviews that although in his book he says he’s a 6, it’s really more like a 6.9. I concur.

#8

Assuming that that’s more unlikely than an interventionist god is buying into religions that say there is one, though. If there were a god or gods (and for the record, I voted “6” as well), it wouldn’t need a reason to act as though it didn’t exist, from our perspectives; if it’s possible for lowly humans to make things and then not interact with them afterward, it’s surely possible for an all-powerful god-type being.

#9

I call myself a weak atheist but according to Dawkins’s scale I am a “de facto” atheist.

I do not assert the nonexistence of god but presume unproved things not to exist as a general rule.

#10

It’s interesting that so far most people are gravitating to extremes (or neutral) on this issue. I guess I would have expected more unsurety on both sides.

#11

Also, poll fail for not being public.

#12

100% is so final. I think there being a God (supernatural) is as unlikely a thing as I can imagine. Like anything which the mind can invent or even things outside our ability, I’m willing to accept something if I have sufficient proof, but I put god way, waaaay below unicorns and dragons (at least, one-horned horselike animals and enormous lizards that breathed fire, not the magic kind of unicorns and dragons where they can talk and grant wishes or whatthefuckever) on the possible scale.

#13

Well, I’m A Six Point Seven On The Richter Scale
I’ve Got Rhymes Gallot And Then I Never Fail
Like Gravy On Potatos, Luke To Darth Vader
I’m A Souped Up Sucker And I’ll See You All Later

#14

I picked 7, but as discussed, 6.5-6.9 seems about right.

#15

The difference between 5 and 6 seems to come down to your interpretation of “skeptical” versus “improbable”, and the “live [your] life under the assumption that he is not there” really applies to 5 as well. Or is this the category that goes to church twice a year just-in-case?

That uncertainty might be why you’re seeing more ‘extreme’ results there, since 6 is a more confident answer.

#16

Im not sure where on this poll I would end up, I do believe there is some sort of supreme being, but I in general also reject our modern religions after the misfortune of growing up catholic.

#17

Aw yeah, fundamentalist agnostics represent.

By my reading, that woudl be the 3s.

#18

I’ll wager 200 Quatloos.

#19

Your objectives are not the poll’s objectives.

The poll fail is for not including a “Subgenius Demi-Yeti” choice.

#20

Hmmm… “Skeptical, and see no reason to really give a damn one way or the other.” 5ish is prolly closest, maybe 6. Dunno. Don’t care enough to be picky about it. :P