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Originally Posted by DuffMan
It makes sense that the most famous atheist will leave the least amount of room possible for skepticism due to fact that proving God doesn't exist is impossible.
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Precisely! So why do you claim with certainty that there is no god?
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Likewise, how many xtians are 1's on the opposite end of the scale instead of 1.1's and do not leave that small amount of room?
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That was exactly Dawkins's point, which you should have read in the text I quoted. He claims that many believers will say they're a "1" because they have absolute conviction in their faith, but very few atheists will say they're a "7" because there literally is no possible way to disprove god and thus the possibility, however small, will always be there. In his view, both 1s and 7s are irrational since the existence of god(s) is inherently unknowable.
For the record, I would also place myself as a 6.9 using his scale.