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Agnostic
- A person who believes that, at our present
level of knowledge, we cannot know whether or not
a God exists. Some Agnostics believe that we can never
know whether a deity exists.
Agnosticism
is the philosophical view that the truth values of
certain claims, particularly theological claims regarding
the existence of God, gods or deities, are either
unknown or inherently unknowable. The term and the
related agnostic were coined by Thomas Henry Huxley
in 1869 and are also used to describe those who are
unconvinced or noncommittal about the existence of
deities as well as other matters of religion. (wikipedia)
An Agnostic [1] [noun] [OW] embraces a worldview in
which the existence of deity is unknown or unknowable.
Derives from the Greek agnostos, a = without, gnostos
= known or knowledge. "Agnostic[ism] [CE] was coined
by Professor TH Huxley in 1869 to describe the mental
attitude of one who regarded as futile all attempts
to know the reality corresponding to our ultimate
scientific, philosophic, and religious ideas." (AOL)
Agnostic one who believes that the evidence for and
against the existence of God is inconclusive. (summit)
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