There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along th…

Richard Dawkins
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There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason to suppose that, just because God can be neither proved nor disproved, his probability of existence is 50 per cent. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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