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IS EVERYBODY 100% POSITIVE THERE IS NO GOD?

I wanted to put this question out there to see how strongly everyone feels on this subject. Being that most of us trust in scientific fact and reasoning, I was wondering if everyone is absolutely, undeniably, 100% sure that a god doesn't exist. I personally take into account that there is no proof of any cosmic creator so therefore I am about 99.9999% sure that there is no god. However we all agree that science is an ever evolving field and I don't think that there will ever be any proof to support the existence of a supreme being, but I can't be 100% sure until there is concrete proof against one. I would like to know what all of your thoughts on this.

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Permalink Reply by Arnold on March 15, 2010 at 3:48pm

The tea is floating about in Russell's pot. I don't know about the biscuits -- probably a myth.

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Permalink Reply by Arnold on March 15, 2010 at 3:53pm

But some day soon, Almighty Linux will come in a Red Hat (called in some ancient texts a Fedora) and cast all Microsoft operating systems into a cyberhell "where the virus dieth not." I know it is true because I believe it!

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Permalink Reply by Bubba Tarandfeathered on June 27, 2010 at 8:10pm

Inevitably a 'user' of windows will have to press the f8 key. It is then possible to say that our keybording destinies are predetermined. A user could if they wished accept only the new keyboarding covenant and hold down the control key during a resurrection procedure, but the results are the same. A Sys-Admin versed in the ancient Shiftcraft of the Keybalah will have knowledge of the mysteries of the Alt-key combination sequences, but any user can easily demystify this knowledge.

It is therefore easy to say that CAPS LOCK exist with near %100 certainty, but given the shear numbers of alternate keboarding experiences the fact becomes >null.

Can anybody help with hooking up my Gutenberg Press to my Babbage Difference Engine?

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Permalink Reply by Jason Spicer on June 27, 2010 at 9:51pm

"Can anybody help with hooking up my Gutenberg Press to my Babbage Difference Engine?"

Brad, you just need an HDMI cable. A wooden one. With sealskin shielding.

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Permalink Reply by Becca on March 10, 2010 at 11:14pm

It depends on the definition of god. For some gods yes I am 100% certain they do not exist, for others I merely lack belief.

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Permalink Reply by Gila Guerilla on March 12, 2010 at 11:46pm

A good answer, Becca.

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Permalink Reply by Lorryslorrys on March 11, 2010 at 5:48am

Yeah. That's pretty much it. Viewing the world you must make non-rigorous trust in what you can ascertain from your environment (to escape Descartes' Cogito). In a sense you can never be 100% sure.
I have some problems with saying you're 99.99% sure. But I think I should have a good hard think about probability theory first, otherwise I might get back up to 100 and wonder how I got there.

The Abrahamic god (who, in my opinion, is not above the laws of capitalisation) can be shown to be impossible by a contradiction argument ["could he cook a burrito so hot.."]. These are usually dismissed as simple and childish arguments because it really is that easy.

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Permalink Reply by Arnold on March 15, 2010 at 4:05pm

If he could make an infinitely hot burrito that I could still taste through the hotness, I might be tempted to believe. But, seriously, Aquinas argued (correctly I think) that such arguments against omnipotence are meaningless because it is always possible to posit something that cannot be done, such as thinking furious green ideas -- not to be confused with furiously having ideas about the color green. Omnipotence, if such an attribute is possible, would consist in the ability to do anything do-able.