(November 21, 2011 at 1:27 pm)edk141 Wrote: I hate the whole "agnostic atheist" thing. For some reason, saying "we can't know" is the only logical position when discussing God, but not when discussing all the other possible things that have similar chances of existing. I'm agnostic regarding God in the same way that I'm agnostic regarding the possibility that the moon contains at least 10kg of green cheese.
Yeah, I think I made this point recently. Here's my thoughts as per a post I made a few weeks ago:
(September 3, 2011 at 11:22 am)ElDinero Wrote: I've always found the term 'agnostic' to muddle the issue, it's pretty unnecessary. If you say you're an agnostic atheist, you get 'AHA, so you don't know', and if you say you're a gnostic atheist (which if pushed is where I would have to lean) then they say 'But how can you KNOW for sure there is no God', and then I have to fall over myself trying to explain that I KNOW there is no God to the same extent that I know unicorns et al do not exist. There has never been any credible evidence of either, but nobody gets grilled on other fantastical myths.
So yeah, agnostic is a fairly useless term.
