On 27 June 2014 06:51, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Concerning the existence of a china teapot in orbit around the planet >>> Uranus, are you a teapot atheist or agnostic? >>> >> >> > Agnostic. >> > > Is the possibility of such a orbiting teapot large enough that it would > alter your behavior in any way? If not then you're a teapot atheist. >
Surely Atheist means 100% sure, so 99.999999999....% is still agnostic? As long as you've stated that you are only very slightly uncertain, you've stated your position anyway so the label's (kind of) irrelevant. > > > You never know. >> > > Are you sure about that? Are you a never know atheist or a never know > agnostic? > "Never know" is agnosticism. "Sure that X is untrue" is atheism. > > > your analogy does not work, because the notion of god is not that >> clear-cut. >> > > That's not important. Most intelligent educated people long ago abandoned > the notion of God, the important thing is not the idea the important thing > is the English word G-O-D; even though it no longer means anything people > such as yourself just refuse to abandon those 3 letters if they are in that > sequence. > Could still be a useful concept, e.g. in "godlike intelligence" (see above). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
