(November 7, 2016 at 4:44 pm)TheHuxleyAgnostic Wrote:(July 4, 2015 at 4:59 pm)doomed Wrote: So, I don't consider myself atheist, but the agnostic label fits me perfectly well.
That's a perfectly acceptable label, all on its own. You don't have to use the "agnostic atheist" stuff a minority of people are pushing.
Huxley was a scientist, above all else. He saw the scientific method in picking apples at the market. The agnosticism he defined was a belief in that scientific method, and it amounted to a form of demarcation. No objective testable evidence = a subjective unfalsifiable claim. Results: unscientific and inconclusive. No belief as to the truth, or falsehood, of the claim. It is not compatible with atheism, the belief gods do not exist, or theism, the belief gods do exist.
Anyone claiming agnosticism doesn't cover belief, has never read Huxley ...
Or has read some Huxley but does not find him authoritative on the matter.