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Another note on labels: Richard Dawkins (surely the world's most famous atheist at the moment) posits a 1 to 10 scale of belief, where 1 denotes Ï know there is a god,"" and 10 denotes Ï know that there is not a god." Dawkins points out that the majority of believers have no problem listing themselves at position 1 - they proudly say that they are certain in their knowledge that a god exists, but very few atheists put themselves at position 10 - most acknowledge that we don't yet know enough about the universe to say. Dawkins himself says he is something like an 8.7 - he regards the probability of a deity as vanishingly small. I would feel comfortable putting myself at a 9.
Morigoon - speaking only for myself, I find it refreshing to be invited to even talk about these things openly. In my day to day life, there are very few people who are even interested enough in the topic to engage in a conversation.
Oh! Gotta go!
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