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Are you Agnostic?
June 23, 2010 at 7:15 am
It’s my opinion that most people are agnostic. Some who claim to be believers, and some who claim to be atheists, are actually agnostics. I was agnostic for many years. Some of those years I called myself a believer, and some of those years I would have called myself atheist. But I always had nagging questions that kept me from being able to say I know. So I think agnostic is the most honest place to be for most people. But i consider myself as a Atheist Agnostic.
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RE: Are you Agnostic?
June 23, 2010 at 7:29 am
I'm an agnostic atheist. Agnosticism means I don't believe I or anyone else can hold absolute knowledge - the opposite being gnosticism - of God be it his existence or non-existence (or anything else besides God for that matter), and atheism means I don't believe in God, I don't believe he exists.
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RE: Are you Agnostic?
June 23, 2010 at 8:28 am
I'm too an agnostic atheist. Agnostic because I don't believe one can know either way that there is a god or not. I don't believe god can be proven or disproven. Atheist because there is no evidence to suggest that there is a god and so I lack belief in god's existance.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
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Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
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RE: Are you Agnostic?
June 23, 2010 at 8:29 am
I'm an agnostic atheist; have been for years.
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RE: Are you Agnostic?
June 23, 2010 at 8:36 am
(June 23, 2010 at 8:30 am)mo3taz3nbar Wrote: Quote:there is no evidence to suggest that there is a god and so I lack belief in god's existance.
what kind of evidance you are looking for???
Something measurable, testable and repeatable that can help support the claim. Something that points to god and not any other imaginable character.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: Are you Agnostic?
June 23, 2010 at 8:53 am
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2010 at 8:54 am by Ace Otana.)
(June 23, 2010 at 8:42 am)mo3taz3nbar Wrote: Quote:Something measurable, testable and repeatable that can help support the claim. Something that points to god
anything like that could be something that science didnt discovered yet(if you mean something else plz give me an example for it)
Quote:and not any other imaginable character.
anything that you dont see can be imaginable.what will make you sure that anything you didnt see is not imaginable?
Quote:anything like that could be something that science didnt discovered yet(if you mean something else plz give me an example for it)
Can't really give any other examples. Don't know how one could prove the existance of something that leaves no evidence of it's existance.
Quote:anything that you dont see can be imaginable.what will make you sure that anything you didnt see is not imaginable?
There is no way to be 100% sure about anything. I work based on evidence. There is a cup'o tea infront of me (except the tea is no longer in the cup
). Now I have two good reasons why I believe it's there. For one, I can see it. And two, I can touch it. Also both of these senses tell me the same thing, they both tell me it's characteristics with spot on accuracy. Now god, what is there to suggest that he/it/thing exists?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.