Calculating the mathematical probability of God's existence

This is actually rather neat. Blackblade has pulled together a little equation of sorts (or whatever the proper word is; mathematical terminology is not one of my strong points) to calculate how likely it is that God exists, from his agnostic point of view.

Factor	Likelihood	Weighting
Historical and documentary evidence	70%	10%
Objective, reproducible evidence	0%	90%
Belief	80%	5%
Logical Derivation	50%	5%
Moral Absolutism/Relativism (ethics vs ethos)	5%	80%
Lack of any directly observed interaction	0%	70%
		18%

Interesting. I'll admit I don't know what the bugger he means by "logical derivation", but otherwise, quite an accurate scale. Although, the end result – "18%" (17.5% to be exact) – still seems a bit high. I'd settle it somewhere in the 5-10%, and no more. But that's just me.

(via Vox Popoli)

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