(April 26, 2009 at 9:54 am)erniesam Wrote: My beliefs: I'm not a theist, I'm not an atheist. I do not believe in agnosticism, because it's a cowardly and undecided position. I'm simply saying; we cannot say anything about the unknown that makes any sense. Atheism states that there is no god or God, but by stating this, atheism is saying something about the unknown.Read a dictionary sometime, you are ignorant.
Atheism: Disbelief in gods or belief that gods do not exist.
Theism: Belief in gods.
Agnosticism: Philosophy that contends that certain truths are unknown or unknowable.
Agnosticism is not a cowardly position, it is actually what you subscribe to (you said we cannot say anything about the unknown). Atheism is likewise not stating absolutes, it is stating disbeliefs (or sometimes beliefs). Belief does not equal knowledge.
I am an agnostic atheist (yes, the two are not mutually exclusive!) which means that atheism describes my beliefs (i.e. I do not believe in gods) and agnosticism describes my philosophy (i.e. I do not think gods can be proven or disproven since they are by definition unknowable beings).
I implore you to actually do a bit of research. I used to be like you, I thought that agnosticism was a pathetic view to have, that agnostics were "on the fence". Only when I set out to write a blog article on why agnosticism was foolish did I realize that Huxley was talking perfect sense, and in actual fact agnosticism is the only philosophy concerning knowledge that actually works.
