(January 24, 2013 at 1:00 pm)Aardverk Wrote:(January 24, 2013 at 5:57 am)genkaus Wrote: The requirement of 100% certainty on your part is unreasonable because that would make acceptance or rejection of any title/label/claim indefensible.But that is the definition of an atheist.
Less than 100% certainty that there are no gods and you become an agnostic.
If your answer to the question of whether you know God exists is 'no', you're an agnostic. If your answer to the question of whether you believe God exists is 'no', you're an atheist. The terms are not exclusive and it makes perfect sense to refer to someone as an agnostic atheist. There is no requirement for certainty in either definition, which is why there are terms for the position of certainty for both. Hard agnosticism is being certain that it can't be known if God exists (I don't know and you don't either!), strong atheism is being certain that God does not exist.
