With more than 64 million practitioners making up 95% of the population, Buddhism is the main religion of Thailand, and it has been since it was first introduced into the country more than a thousand years ago. They further accept that prior to the creation, the First Cause was not in time, a position relying on the theory that time is relational rather than absolute. The doctor needs to update the prior. Now if the doctor sends everyone who tests positive to the national hospital, there will be an equal number of healthy and sick patients. God said, “I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt. And watch it die. Then dry his eyes and say, ‘Maybe next year.’ I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, then, pain’n from ‘tractor back,’ put in another seventy-two hours.” So God made a farmer.

Begin your interview with open questions that will encourage your interviewee to talk (these questions will begin with who, what, when, where, why, how). Like Walter Winchell and Gabriel Heatter before him, he personalized the radio news with his right-wing opinions, but laced them with his own trademarks: a hypnotic timbre, extended pauses for effect, heart-warming tales of average Americans and folksy observations that evoked the heartland, family values and the old-fashioned plain talk one heard around the dinner table on Sunday. The speech was originally delivered in 1978, smack dab in the middle of the Carter era, and with its folksy timbre and talk of God, Paul Harvey’s words stood out amid the stream of ads that ranged from salacious to ridiculous to sentimental on 21st-century CBS. Time Out The result plays like an over-extended version of the Reiner/Mel Brooks 2000-Year-Old Man sketches. A sly, civilized, quietly funny speculation on what might happen if God endeavored to present himself in the flesh yet once again to forgetful Man. Cambridge University Press. But dogmatic atheism is rare compared with the sceptical type, which is identical with agnosticism in so far as it denies the capacity of the mind of man to form any conception of God, but is different from it in so far as the agnostic merely holds his judgment in suspense, though, in practice, agnosticism is apt to result in an attitude towards religion which is hardly distinguishable from a passive and unaggressive atheism.

WIN-Gallup. “Global Index of religion and atheism” (PDF). From the 1970s there has been a Neopagan rebirth of the northern Germanic religion in Iceland, in the country known as Ásatrú, part of the broader movement of Germanic Heathenry (Germanic Neopaganism). In spite of this, a 2015 study estimated some 8,000 believers in Christ from a Muslim background in the country. The doctor knows that only 1 percent of the people in the country are sick. Bayes stated the defining relationship expressing the probability you test positive AND are sick as the product of the likelihood that you test positive GIVEN that you are sick and the “prior” probability that you are sick (that is, the probability the patient is sick, prior to specifying a particular patient and administering the test). What does it mean to have prior belief about the probability of a mathematical model? Swinburne assigns God a prior probability of 50 percent since there are only two choices: God exists or does not. The importance of accurate data in quantitative modeling is central to the subject raised in the question: using Bayes’s theorem to calculate the probability of the existence of God. For example, model A might be one in which spacetime is 11-dimensional, and model B one in which spacetime is 26-dimensional. Once I have performed a quantitative measurement and obtained some data D, one needs to calculate the relative probability of the two models: p(A|D)/p(B|D).

One hundred and thirty-nine GG1s were built. In this country, however, we suppose that only one in every 200 people is sick. If we administer the test to everyone, the most probable result is that 99 of the 100 sick people test positive. 0.01, we know that 1 percent, or 100 people, are sick, and 9,900 are healthy. The intuitive answer is 99 percent, but the correct answer is 50 percent, and Bayes’s theorem gives us the relationship between what we know and what we want to know in this problem. To some, this relationship is the source of deep joy; to others, maddening frustration. The source of this frustration is the unknown priors, p(A) and p(B). God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor’s place. The word Tenakh comes from the three first letters of the three books included in this text: the Torah, plus the Nev’im (prophets) and the Ki’tuvim (writings, which include histories, prophecies, poems, hymns and sayings).