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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
