Dawkins’ Belief Scale

[tumbleweed41]

For the purposes of this poll, God is defined as any singular deity. For instance, YHWH, Jehovah, Allah, Krishna, "First Cause", etc.


Poll courtesy of Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion.

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[mycorrhiza]

Are we only talking about personal dieties?

 

[Quintessence]

Singular deity? Are we excluding non-monotheists here, then? Even if we aren't, it's really hard to answer that poll. How I answer it depends on the deity in question.

 

[tumbleweed41]

Are we only talking about personal dieties?

No.

 

[tumbleweed41]

Singular deity? Are we excluding non-monotheists here, then?

For the purposes of this poll, yes.

 

[tumbleweed41]

Richard Dawkins rates himself as a 6
"On a scale of seven, where one means I know he exists, and seven I know he doesn't, I call myself a six. That doesn't mean I'm absolutely confident, that I absolutely know, because I don't."

 

[Quintessence]

For the purposes of this poll, yes.

*sniffles* *feels left out* :sad4:

 

[mycorrhiza]

No.

That makes it harder do i put de-facto theist or weak atheist?

Edit: I guess you're referring to supernatural Gods (haven't read Dawkins), so I put weak atheist.

 

[Storm]

I voted Strong Theist, though I took umbrage with the "theist" part.

 

[Willamena]

So, for the purpose of this poll, God is defined.

That leaves out a large portion of the world's religious.

 

[9Westy9]

Weak atheist sounds like me

 

[The Sum of Awe]

I can't really say I fit on this scale, I know the idea of a personal God is more absurd than russel's teapot, but I can say the Deist God is possible.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

I can't really say I fit on this scale, I know the idea of a personal God is more absurd than russel's teapot, but I can say the Deist God is possible.

The scale is not about personal gods.

 

[illykitty]

"De-facto Theist" because there's no way I could know for sure!

 

[Road Warrior]

For the purposes of this poll, God is defined as any singular deity. For instance, YHWH, Jehovah, Allah, Krishna, "First Cause", etc.

I interpret "God" also to encompass beliefs that all of the Universe and whatever is outside of it (if anything) is "God" or a single force, that we are all "One". A "singular deity", but not necessarily a separate one.

Which reminds me of the joke where the Zen master walks up to a New York City hot dog vendor and says "Make me one with everything".

 

[The Sum of Awe]

The scale is not about personal gods.

Yes, it's about any god, impersonal and personal, which leads me to my confusion.

 

[Road Warrior]

I can't really say I fit on this scale, I know the idea of a personal God is more absurd than russel's teapot, but I can say the Deist God is possible.

Agreed since there appears to be little evidence of a personal God except in legend. Separate out all of the arguments for a personal God and a lot of the atheist arguments about the existence of God fall away. Even Dawkins admits he can't be certain.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Agreed since there appears to be little evidence of a personal God except in legend. Separate out all of the arguments for a personal God and a lot of the atheist arguments about the existence of God fall away. Even Dawkins admits he can't be certain.

None of us can be certain of anything, nobody was asking what we were certain of, they were asking what we believed it was.

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Edward the Agnostic - YouTube

 

[sojourner]

I voted "strong theist," but I objected to the "I know" part. Would rather that it read, "I believe."

 

[fallingblood]

I put pure agnostic. Even though I choose to believe in God, I think it is just as possible that God does not exist.