RE: Why Agnostic?
July 5, 2009 at 6:12 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2009 at 6:23 pm by Kyuuketsuki.)
(July 5, 2009 at 5:56 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Just drop the act and admit that you were being a tad arrogant, you were incorrect and couldn't admit it...
No because I don't accept I'm incorrect ... I think Dawkins' scale makes more sense than yours and I think the term agnostic atheist is wishy washy. I'm also getting bored of arguing it.
It's worth noting that Wiki (which I don't accept as authoritative and based on a rapid scan) says Huxley didn't define agnosticism as god being unknown or unknowable but as a rejection of gnosticism (knowledge) of god and that the idea of god being unknown or unknowable entered literature later. From that article (and again I admit this is on a very brief scan) it appears Huxley defined agnosticism as more being opposed to the "gnostic" orthodoxy than anything else ... I have to admit I am under the impression that this idea of agnosticism meaning unknown/unknowable is a recent thing and that the "standard" meaning (from decades back) is that it simply defines someone as not knowing whether there is a god or not rather than something more philosophical.
Kyu
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