(March 28, 2009 at 7:35 am)Giff Wrote: By the way change your religious view from "Agnostic Atheist" to just "Agnostic". You can't be both things.A common mistake in definitions (even still made by atheists). I suggest this article: http://atheistblogger.com/2008/12/23/sca...certainty/ , mainly because I wrote it. I started trying to come up with an argument against agnosticism over atheism (because I thought agnosticism meant no opinion or "not sure"). However after reading various sources, including the essay by Thomas Huxley (the guy who invented the word) I found that the meaning of agnosticism has been lost in the public sphere over the years, but not in the academic sphere. Philosophers have never used the word agnostic in the "not sure" sense (at least nowhere I have read).
Anyway, atheism covers belief in God, but agnosticism is a philosophy that can be applied to everything supernatural. Sure, it might exist, but if it can't be properly observed or tested we might not be able to say anything absolute about its existence.
