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What, in your estimation, is the probability of the God hypothesis being correct?

Even just the deist God.

What are the odds that we were created by someONE instead of someTHING?

Give me a percentage.

Update:

Blake: You sound like a future atheist.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Dr. James Coppedge, director of the Center for Probability Research in Biology in California

    - applied laws of probability of a single cell, protein, and gene coming into existence by chance

    - computed a world including the earth’s crust and entire array of elements were available. He then had all the amino acids combine at 1.5 trillion times faster than they do in nature. In computing the probabilities, he found that a cell would take 10,119,841 years, a single protein molecule 10,262 years.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Although my estimate is bias, I'll say 100%.

    I mean, hey...I'm a believer. I have no reason to say anything less than 100%. But I'm not going to shut the door on maybe 99%. There's always that minuscule skeptical thought.

  • maven
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Now for some real fun ask this again in the lovely Mathematics section, where there are actual experts on issues of probability.

    Source(s): eight and a half percent.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I can't get myself to believe in a god with human emotions, if anything i think the Taoists have a better explanation with the Tao, it is a creative force with no human characteristics.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Ugh- tough one. I guess if you only go on scientific evidence, the chances that we were created by God would be zero. Personally I don't think science has anything to do with religion so I'm going to say 100% that God created the universe and, by extension, us.

  • Amanda
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I'll say 1%. Just to say that it may be possible, but even one percent may be a bit much.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    0, there is no chance at all.

  • 1 decade ago

    Let's be nice and say 0.0001%.

    Source(s): The percentage would be far lower if I were honest instead of nice. :P
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