From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri May 11 2001 - 20:13:54 MDT
At 07:13 AM 5/11/01 -0700, Zero wrote:
>your chances of eternal damnation were 100%. What I meant above was that
>there is only a 50% chance (at best) that that theology is accurate.
What? Your parents might have *lied to you*?! Wash your mouth out, you
naughty boy!
I really can't see how you'd get a 0.5 probability, Zero. Wouldn't you need
to take account of all the other competing doctrines and sub-doctrines, at
least extant and possibly in the past (although I suppose any one true god
would not have allowed the one true faith to die out)? Mightn't you then
need to do some transform on that number, perhaps scaling it directly or
inversely (since the devil's option is always the most attractive) by the
number of adherents of each doctrine? Can't see how you'd get anything
remotely as high as 50:50.
Damien Broderick
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