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Re:Why religion is not going away and science will not destr... by Yizahi on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @09:16AM (#15237922)
Statistics is a science and it tells us that while god-entity may exist it most probably don't and definitely don't in the way described in "the books".
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Re:Why religion is not going away and science will not destr... by beojan on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @10:01AM (#15238298)
Statistics isn't a science, it's a mathematical tool. It certainly doesn't tell us that no God exists.

I suppose you could argue that the probability that the nature of God is precisely as described in your chosen sacred text is zero, but that presupposes that the text is simply uniformly sampled from the set of all possible natures of God, which isn't really a valid assumption.

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