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It's not science in any sort of meaningful sense.
QED. Science is testable, repeatable, and falsifiable. Saying something like "the chance of God existing is 50%" is a fancy mathematical disguise for an unprovable (and non-scientific) premise.
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but the fact that, if you like, we operate within different genres of thinking---that we can engage in scientific activities in one quadrant of our lives, and in another be quite religious---means that the only result of the above is that certain types of premises are ruled out of certain games. but that this is the case doesn't falsify them in general--it only excludes them from that particular game. this is one of the things i was trying to get at above...why the appeal to some abstract notion of "science" doesn't speak to the multiplicity of genre-frames that all of us operate with as we move through our experience, nor does it say anything about the hierarchies or arrangements that folk can fashion for themselves between or among these frames.