{"id":2344,"date":"2004-03-23T03:36:18","date_gmt":"2004-03-23T19:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/23\/forecast-cloudy-67-chance-of-god\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:51:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:51:52","slug":"forecast-cloudy-67-chance-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/23\/forecast-cloudy-67-chance-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Forecast: cloudy, 67% chance of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11461,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/education.guardian.co.uk\\\/higher\\\/sciences\\\/story\\\/0,12243,1164894,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/education.guardian.co.uk\\\/higher\\\/sciences\\\/story\\\/0,12243,1164894,00.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11462,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.neilgaiman.com\\\/journal\\\/2004_03_14_archive.asp#107947444953052230&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060110064009\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.neilgaiman.com:80\\\/journal\\\/2004_03_14_archive.asp&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 16:39:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 16:39:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Hey, all you atheists out there &#8212; looks like you&#8217;ve only got about a 33% chance of being right. According to Dr.\u00a0Stephen Unwin, <a href=\"http:\/\/education.guardian.co.uk\/higher\/sciences\/story\/0,12243,1164894,00.html\" title=\"Odds on that God exists, says scientist\">there is a 67% chance that God exists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Dr Stephen Unwin has used a 200-year-old formula to calculate the probability of the existence of an omnipotent being. Bayes&#8217; Theory is usually used to work out the likelihood of events, such as nuclear power failure, by balancing the various factors that could affect a situation.<\/p>\n<p>  The Manchester University graduate, who now works as a risk assessor in Ohio, said the theory starts from the assumption that God has a 50\/50 chance of existing, and then factors in the evidence both for and against the notion of a higher being.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2004_03_14_archive.asp#107947444953052230\" title=\"Catching up. No mention of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head.\">Neil Gaiman<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, all you atheists out there &mdash; looks like you&#8217;ve only got about a 33% chance of being right. According to Dr. Stephen Unwin, there is a 67% chance that God exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2028],"tags":[39,103],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-links","tag-links","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}