Richard Dawkins has claimed he is a “6.9” on the scale of belief vs. disbelief.
I have two questions regarding this…
1) Why would he spend so much time coming up with a “scale” on something he obviously feels isn’t worth discussing because it’s so obvious what the uber-probable truth is?
And, more importantly:
2) Why 1-7? I mean, when most people do a “on a scale of…” thing, it’s usually 1-5, or 1-10, or 1-100…couldn’t he have inserted a few more to make it more, you know, normal? Unless he meant it as a joke, since 7 is widely considered a sacred number in many religions. I don’t think he DID, but if so, hey…kinda funny. Not like “haha!” funny, but sort of “tiny wry smile…hey not bad!” sort of funny.
It’s sort of John McLaughlin-from-SNL-esque (See ‘Saturday Night Live – The Best Of Dana Carvey’, “The McLaughlin Group” sketch)…
“Wrong! On a scale of 1 to 14, 1 being lowest degree of likelihood, 14 being absolute metaphysical certitude…”
“Wrong! The actual degree of likelihood is 6.5.”
*SATIRE…SATIRE…SATIRE*
-Puppy >.< Yip!