JoshuaZ comments on Outside the Laboratory

JoshuaZ 12 Jul 2010 15:00 UTC
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That belief in an afterlife tends to go with belief in a deity doesn’t make disbelief in an afterlife a logical consequence of atheism.

Yes, but it seems fair to say that P(Afterlife|A deity exists) > P(Afterlife|~ A deity exists).
- AlexM 12 Jul 2010 15:38 UTC
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  why? how do you measure that P of caring personal god who saves human souls from extinction is higher that P of unthinking mechanism (“akashic chronicle”, “reincarnation wheel”) doing the same?
  - JoshuaZ 12 Jul 2010 15:43 UTC
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    why? how do you measure that P of caring personal god who saves human souls from extinction is higher that P of unthinking mechanism (“akashic chronicle”, “reincarnation wheel”) doing the same?
    
    I don’t, but something like a reincarnation wheel or an akashic chronicle is not inconsistent with the existence of a deity so I don’t need to.