God's Number is Up
Among a heap of books claiming that science proves God's existence emerges The Probability of God (Crown Forum, 2003), by Stephen D. Unwin that computes a probability of 67 percent.
People often try to give claims the appearance of scientific credibility by couching them in terms of mathematics. A good bullshit detecting technique is to find out how the person making the claim came up with the numbers that enter into the equation. When done properly Math is internally consistent. However, if you put garbage in, you get garbage out. Michael Shermer takes out the trash in the following article.
