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I Believe In God the Father Almighty

The Apos­tles’ Creed: I Believe In God The Father
Length: 45:23
Size: 25 MB
For­mat MP3
Speaker: Glen Davis — 4/28/2004

“I believe in God the Father almighty…”

So begins the Apos­tles’ Creed–one of the ear­li­est expres­sions of the Chris­t­ian faith.

How likely is it that such a being exists–one to whom the labels “father” and “almighty” can equally apply?

In this mes­sage, the ancient and the mod­ern blend as we bring Bayesian analy­sis to bear on this clas­sic for­mu­la­tion of the Chris­t­ian faith.

Yup–that’s right. Bayesian analy­sis. We’re talk­ing about cal­cu­lat­ing the prob­a­bil­ity of God.

If you’d like to play along, we’ve put together an Excel spread­sheet so you can twid­dle with the data and cre­ate your own analy­sis of the like­li­hood of God’s existence.

I should men­tion that this talk was inspired by Stephen Unwin’s book The Prob­a­bil­ity of God. If you’d like to learn more, you can read an excel­lent inter­view with the author on BlogCritics.