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Originally Posted by photon
Even Dawkins (whom many would put as one of the most strident atheists) talks about this in that his confidence on a scale (from 1 to 7) changes depending on what kind of god one is talking about. If one sticks to a Biblical definition of God one can be more confident since the Bible makes specific claims that can be tested (so absence of evidence does become evidence of absence), but if one gives a vague hand waving definition like a deist type god that maybe set the universe in motion but that's it, it's harder to be as confident about a conclusion.
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I'd never heard of that scale. Off to Google I go.