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by Tuna-Fish 4406 days ago
Depends on how you define agnosticism. To use a popular example, I am not agnostic about you having an invisible fire-breathing dragon in your garage despite not being able to put a flat 0% probability on it.

Bayesianism redefines the concept of knowledge, which under Bayesianism is represented as a probability. I have very strong knowledge that there is no god. If given sufficiently strong proof against that, I will update my beliefs about the issue -- but this does not mean the same as being unsure about it now.

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You shouldn't have any "knowledge" that there is no god.

The issue isn't that there is a small probability of god existing, but rather there is a vanishingly small probability of your particular brand of god being true versus all the other particular brands of god or gods being true.

The pudding in a Bayesian discussing is as so often in the normalizing factor...

No. I have done quite a lot of observations on the world. Each and every one of those observations has produced a result congruent with a world in which no gods exist, and so has very slightly nudged my P(god) towards zero. Under a Bayesian philosophy, this probability is called knowledge.
Then you have to assume that god fudges with the physics so you can catch him at it. Which means that all faiths on the world must assume a god would interfere in a situation that you utterly and completely observed and understood. Because otherwise there might be a true god from some religion who just doesn't care about you.