November 2010
4 posts
Fuck Yeah Agnosticism: Agnostics →
fuckyeahagnosticism:
Actually, there are theist agnostics. There are also agnostics, such as myself, who are neither atheist nor theist. A person can hold a belief without claiming knowledge of if the belief is true.
I know there are theist agnostics. But the “undecided” agnostics are all atheist. You just need to answer the question “Do you believe god exists?”....
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Agnostics
The current popular definition of agnosticism is as someone who is neither a theist nor an atheist - as someone who is “undecided” when it comes to the question of god’s existence. I’ve come a lot of self-proclaimed agnostics, who like to claim some kind of philosophical high-ground, and see atheists as “just as dogmatic as theists”. Some agnostics never really...
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Believing without evidence?
I’ve recently been debating with some guy online about what should be believed, and when are you justified in believing something. It was a version of the classic “you can’t prove god doesn’t exist” arguments. He used this rather strange interpretation of the Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment, to argue that, since you have no evidence for the existence of...