Three rules of epistemology that should be taught at school: 1. Knowledge does not come from authority, but always from evidence, and evidence is very hard to get. The only tools to get evidence (including what it actually supports) are reason and scientific inquiry.
Like almost all western thought, Nietzsche's starting point was the need to disprove God, not the recognition that the claim had no support and was thus meaningless. He did not eliminate his need for what could not exist, fell victim to nihilism and became a romantic poet.
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Nietzsche would recognize that your own position is nihilistic. You want to believe in knowledge and you want to believe in facts but all you can manage is one opinion among many.
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Yes, which is basically all the opinions weighted with the probability of them being true. I take it that you believe that you have found a way to pick one of them and now try to justify an item of faith?
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Nietzsche wasn't interested in disproving God but in showing what the death of God would look like if it was widely and consistently applied. Nihilism is the logical result although Nietzsche sought a path to transcend the worst of it.
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