I Wish to Complain About This Poll

[pmcray]

The Alpha Course has a new poster. You might have seen it. I suspect that it was inspired that atheist bus advert. The poster looks this

God exists...

* No

* Yes

* Probably

In other words, it looks like a poll. And if you to the Alpha Course website, there it is on the front page and it is indeed a poll. Leaving aside the rhetorical slight of hand that they've played (compare and contrast Lewis's Trilemma), it struck me that there ought to be some other options. I noticed when I was the eastbound platform of the Piccadilly Line the other day (just round the corner from Alpha Course HQ at Holy Trinity, Brompton), that I was the only person who thinks this. So, in the true James Nicoll style, I suggest that a more meaningful poll would look something like this

God exists...

* No

* Yes

* Probably

* Possibly

* Probably not

* Who is this God person anyway?

* The whole concept of the Christian omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenovelent God is philosophically incoherent and the question is therefore meaningless

* Some other option I will discuss in the comments

* I wish to complain about this poll

Comments

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

It is a shame there is no short abbreviation for "None of the Above". I may have to start wondering around the tube network with a big black marker pen to write it in.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I've been having similar thoughts as it's such a biased poll.

Or A4 sticky labels with some better options and a link to the "British School of Unbiased Poll Design"