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Originally Posted by Eldin
And I still think agnosticism is weak. It implies that there is a roughly equal chance that god exists versus god not existing. Why don't we apply this same convenient "benefit of doubt" to other ideas that have little to no evidence? Like fairies. Are you an agnostic with respect to fairies? Probably not. I'm willing to bet you're willing to bet fairies don't exist. Not because god is any more likely to exist than fairies, but because fairies don't send you to hell
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Your logic here is shifty.
There is of course equal chance that fairies do or do not exist. It depends on empirical evidence that either proves or disproves the existence of fairies.
It's ridiculous to believe fairies exist simply because there is no real evidence to believe such a thing.
However, the general premise being that fairies exist in this world playing in the flowers or something, science can then deduce through observation and experimentation that there is no external or internal force or entity among the environment of a flowerbed that shows any proof of existence of what we would call a fairy.
God's premise being that he exists outside, above and beyond our realm, our sense of existence science cannot truly answer such a question, only show that there does not appear to be any noticeable force in the world that could be rightfully attributed to a god.