--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote: Then, I'd ask: why put an argument for agnosticism and statements such as "God exists" and "gods exist" above a statement that "I have a herbal remedy that makes your penis three inches longer and thicker"?
--- The statement "God exists" is a statement about the nature of existence as such, the claim that there is a ground of being (construing "God" widely), the kind of thing it is impossible to have evidence for or against. Statements about herbal remedies and so forth are claims about particular things inside the world that you can have evidence for. Kind of a difference.
In fact, statements about God are not strictly speaking improbable or not. God "exists" outside of the universe and therefore outside the laws of probability that apply to that universe. It's a noumenon. You can't make statements about noumena.
This applies to statements about "God" broadly defined and not to statements such as "God created the animals two by two."
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