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Originally Posted by Seabound
And about the "There's probably no God" campaign, I'm curious to know why they have the word "probably" in there. It sounds like the campaign still has some lingering doubts about their belief, and leaves room that there is a finite probability that there is a God. Just sayin'.
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I think there was some discussion about the word and if you google you will find that it was a compromise between different views.
But what I wanted to say was that all scientists are fallabilists. There is always room for the possibility that a theory is wrong. And since a lot of people do not know this and think that when you say "A is X" you mean it in the way that there is no room for it to not hold it can a good idea to use some other formulation in an advertisement. When you do science you do not use these kind of words.