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I have to respectfully disagree. I think you have your definitions mixed up. Agnosticism is 'There may be a god, but I don't care enough to claim one way or th
by nwomack 16y ago
I have to respectfully disagree. I think you have your definitions mixed up.
Agnosticism is 'There may be a god, but I don't care enough to claim one way or the other', I think the 'fence sitting' argument is good.
Atheism is: 'There is no god' ie, Richard Dawkins
Atheism is a stronger claim than Agnosticism.
- sjwright 16y ago> Atheism is: 'There is no god' ie, Richard Dawkins You have just misquoted Richard Dawkins.
- sjwright 16y agoYour description of agnosticism is also wrong; you described apatheism. Agnostic: Unsure. Apatheist: Doesn't care. Atheist: Rejects theism.
- rbanffy 16y agoYou can be all of the three. I don't believe there is a god, so I am Atheist. I also don't think the answer to "is there a god?" can be answered definitiely. That makes me Agnostic. I also think that since the answer cannot be determined, the question is a silly one. That makes me an Apathist too.
- alanh 16y agoWho is upvoting this? Dawkins - and according to the Dawkins scale / the poll he ran, most atheists - do not claim there is no god. (That's "strong atheism" and a minority viewpoint, as it is a faith statement.) He rejects Christianity, etc., but leaves open the possibility that some definition of a god may exist, while claiming that such a being is unlikely and unproven.
- DaveChild 16y agoDawkins' scale of belief is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_of_theistic_probability#Dawkins.27_formulation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_of_theistic_probabilit... He describes himself as a 6 - that's an agnostic atheist. That means lacks belief, but does not entirely rule out the possibility of a deity.