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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