What Kind of Statement Is: "There's probably no God?"

[LiberalLovinLug]

60. There is a real difference between those two statements

"There's probably no God" and "There probably is a God"

The first is weighed heavily towards believing in no God. The second towards a God. Whatever that weight is depends on the person. For the sake of argument let's say 99% - 1%.

I think the first is a perfectly legitimate response for a non religious person as no one can know 100% that there is none.

The second is much more odd. The only one using it would be someone who has been a believer but perhaps their faith is waning slightly. Some kind of first indicator of sliding away from religion. But it's a position that is respected neither in the religious community nor the atheist community. It is a very private conclusion based on a personal internal pivot point in a small percent of the population.