{"id":914,"date":"2003-11-17T16:59:01","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T00:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/11\/17\/bayesian-analysis-of-gods-existence\/"},"modified":"2003-11-17T16:59:01","modified_gmt":"2003-11-18T00:59:01","slug":"bayesian-analysis-of-gods-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/11\/17\/bayesian-analysis-of-gods-existence","title":{"rendered":"Bayesian Analysis of God\u2019s Existence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This caught me off-guard (kudos to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ctmag\/features\/weblog\/\">Christianity Today Blog<\/a> for finding it): a scientist has done a Bayesian calculation to determine the probability of God\u2019s existence (which he pegs at&nbsp;67%).<\/p>\n<p>The scientist\u2019s name is Stephen Unwin (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/falsani\/cst-nws-fals14.html\">read an interview<\/a>), and the book detailing his thoughts is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0761526846\/qid=1069116947\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_1\/102-6048702-4661758?v=glance&amp;n=507846\">The Probability of God: A Simple Calculation That Proves the Ultimate Truth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The opening line of his book is <i>\u201cDo you realize that there is some probability that before you complete this sentence, you will be hoofed insensible by a wayward, miniature Mediterranean ass?\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>How cool is&nbsp;that?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve not read it yet\u2013so I have no further comments except to say that it looks extremely interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This caught me off-guard (kudos to Christianity Today Blog for finding it): a scientist has done a Bayesian calculation to determine the probability of God\u2019s existence (which he pegs at&nbsp;67%). The scientist\u2019s name is Stephen Unwin (read an interview), and the book detailing his thoughts is The Probability of God: A Simple Calculation That Proves \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/11\/17\/bayesian-analysis-of-gods-existence\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cBayesian Analysis of God\u2019s Existence\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-answers-to-honest-questions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-eK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}