Has anyone tried the religious belief consistency test?

[Secret Chief]

I got into an argument with the program right at the start.

It makes no allowance for my view that the question Does a [real] god exist? is incoherent in the absence of a clear and sufficient definition appropriate to a god with objective existence.

Having therefore answered 'Don't know' to the first question, and being regularly declared to be inconsistent after that, I gave up.

Yes, true or false on the first answer is the way to go.

 

[blü 2]

Yes, true or false on the first answer is the way to go.

Or a stern word with the designer.

 

[sayak83]

It's interesting, and only takes a few minutes. And you might be surprised at how you fare.

Battleground God

Not really. I was 100% rationally consistent, as expected.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

On this forum, not this thread, as I said.



Personally I'm not "defensive" about the test; I'm simply saying it's a crock. I could have scored 0% or 100% but it's still a crock.

I still say it's a good test and logically sound.

It makes no allowance for my view that the question Does a [real] god exist? is incoherent in the absence of a clear and sufficient definition appropriate to a god with objective existence.

Then you just answer yes or whatever it had there.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

So I treated this question as if it were asking, "it's logically possible that some god might exist."

That's what the question is asking. And as long as one isn't making assumptions about what god must be then there isn't anything to say god isn't a logical possibility.
I see Fundamentalists and new Atheists tripping the most, like the question asking if belief in god is foolish without irrevocable evidence but not establishing the parameters of evidence for the question on evolution.

 

[blü 2]

I still say it's a good test and logically sound.

Mebbe, but not from my igtheist point of view, which is clearly not included in the planning.

Then you just answer yes or whatever it had there.

That's not available. The only correct answer is frequently, Don't know (as in, unknowable until a sufficient definition of God appropriate to a real being, one with objective existence, is supplied).