(January 13, 2014 at 6:47 am)max-greece Wrote: Well there's always Agnostic if you're really not sure.
Yeah, he can call himself an Agnostic if he wants, though he wouldn't want to bound by their rules and dogma.
I don't think you can be both not a Theist and not an Atheist, from my definition, but there are those out there that say you can have a neutral position. I often think this is because peope assume if you disbelieve one statement, you must believe the opposite, so they don't want to be seen to be doing this. The coin analogy was meant to show why this can become absurd, though I guess you can say you have a neutral believe in both the Head and Tail claims. I'd argue in this case the "nuetral belief" and the disbelief are actually the same thing, as both acknowlege the fact that the coin could show a heads, but it isn't 100% certain to.
It all hinges on this concept of neutral belief and whether one can have one. I guess coming from a scientific background, disbelief is very normal, and all experiments start that way. If the experiement is succesful, it doesn't mean you were wrong at the start by disbelieving the hypothesis. You have to start from disbelief ( or belief in the null hypothesis).
