# The Dawkins' Belief Scale: Where Do You Fall?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 14, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dawkins-belief-scale-where-do-you-fall/599653 "2011-10-14T17:23:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dawkins-belief-scale-where-do-you-fall/599653/98 "2011-10-17T00:06:26Z")

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1. I just have a really hard time accepting that the universe came to be this jaw-droppingly complex randomly. I know there are scientific explanations for it, and they make sense to me when I read them. But the odds just seem so small.

And believing in God gives me the hope that 1) there is an afterlife and this isn’t all I get and 2) that eventually horrible people will get their just desserts, because a lot of them sure don’t seem to be getting it now. This all makes me feel better.

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