Originally posted by Kidicious
View Post
As a result many Atheists have better biblical knowledge than many evangelical fundamentalists.
It is not surprising that many christians actually cling to their religion and just vastly overestimate the probability for god (even coming up with unscientific concept like ID and irreducible complexity in order to justify their belief in genesis ... or with concepts that involve lots of fantasy but littel scientific knowledge in order to justify ther passages about the great deluge).
After all, if you invest such a lot of time/energy/money into a religion, then it is hard to accept that it is false.
I guess it is the same problem many Trumpists have regarding abandoning their belief in Trump
![Wink](https://apolyton.net/core/images/smilies/wink.gif)
Originally posted by Kidicious
View Post
Lets take the above mentiopned chance of 1/300 Mio fore a Jackpot.
Lets say there is one lottery each year, a lottery ticket costs 0.5 $ and a person is able to spend 50k $ each year on Lottery tickets for the Jackpot (-> 100,000 lottery tickets each year)
Due to the probabilities being independent, with 100k lottery tickets the person would have a chance to win the jackpot of ~0.033 %
Now, again, lets say the person has a working life of 50 years and each year said person spends the aforementioned amount (and have the same chance, each year, of winning the Jackpot),
then the chance for said person to win the Jackpot once in her lifetime would be ~1.653%
Another person who spends the same amount of money each year in savings books and/or stock portfolios will, by the end of his/her working life, be in possession of 2.5 Mio $ ... probably more if we take into account compound interest.
Comment