>>That is simply ridiculous. That something cannot be proven empirically does not in any way imply equal weight to all possibilities. I've never seen you, but I don't think the odds of your being 10 feet tall are 50-50
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>Funny, now that you bring this up, I am indeed 10 feet tall. I would send you a picture, but there was an article in the local Newspaper yesterday that mentions my name and that I am the record holder of the biggest person in Aruba.
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>But although I am telling you this, and even if you would find the newspaper article, it would only be a 50% chance that this is true, unless you would see me with your own eyes.

This is simply not correct. Charles is correct in saying that just because something cannot be proved or disproved does not in itself imply that the probabilities of either outcome are of equal measure. It is an unknown and assigning probability to either outcome is pointless. Charles posits the correct question; what does one mean by "god"? First this question must be investigated and clarified before you can investigate the question of whether that god exists. And although one might be able to define what one means by the term, one will find it very hard to investigate the existence question because you are a totally and utterly conditioned entity. Although you may believe you are free to investigate you actually are not. You are a prisoner of your conditioning (from which escape is itself perhaps the answer ...).