(May 10, 2011 at 4:29 pm)diffidus Wrote: Atheism cannot, therefore, be ascerted based upon certain knowledge. Therefore, it follows that the truly honest position of any member of humanity is Agnostic. It is intellectual cowardice, on the part of Atheists, not to accept the rational conclusions that reason leads to - namely, that no definitive statement can be about the existence/or not of God, due to lack of knowledge.
I think the flaw in your argument is that you assume that the basic stance of atheism is that it's a fact that there are absolutely no gods whatsoever. While many atheists may think this, the basic idea of atheism is that an atheist just doesn't believe in any gods. That's not to say that we wouldn't believe in a god if one were shown to exist. Atheism is not asserted based on any knowledge, but usually asserted due to lack of evidence to the contrary. I am perfectly aware that there's no definitive proof one way or the other as to any god's existence, but until such proof is shown I must take the default position and say that I don't believe any gods exist. I don't, though, say that it's a fact that no gods exist.
Personally, I think that all agnostics are atheists. Without being able to know whether a god exists or not, the logical thing is to not believe any exist. I think a lot of agnostics are just afraid to call themselves atheists.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
