(March 13, 2014 at 3:53 pm)RDSouth Wrote: However, I'd like to state that I find that many people who call themselves atheists are actually agnostic, or rather, what they describe as atheism is actually agnosticism.I don't think you'll ever see a consensus on that because people don't 'arrive at' atheism the same way or from the same gods or cultures. I will concede that I cannot prove that god does not exist. Any of them. But seeing as this makes me a bit more honest than your average theist (who will steadfastly insist --with full certainty-- that his god is real but that every other god is not), I also have no qualms about living my life as if their god was in the same non-existent boat as all the others.
Whichever label you want to use is fine with me, in any case. Welcome to the forums!
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
