Originally Posted by
gneiss 
I've read the teapot thing before. I love it. And I keep meaning to read the others mentioned, but... durn chemistry homework. Maybe over the summer or something. Of course, I've been saying that for a few years.
Maybe it's just a cop out. Like my agnosticism
(no really, I can see why it looks like a cop out. And I even agree that there's a greater probability that there are no gods. I just don't see the evidence.)
agnosticism is a perfectly valid rational position on propositions that cannot be proved either way. For example life on other planets. There are good arguments either way, and no evidence to settle it.
However just because there is no evidence for or against something, that does not mean it's equally likely to exist as to not exist.
This is where probability comes into it.
I'm
technically agnostic about god, but only to the same extent that i am agnostic about fairies, pink unicorns, and spaghetti monsters. Which is about 99.999999999999999% against.