agnosticism

I don't usually venture into this forum, but this caught my eye and I wondered what you all thought of Amy's advice.

According to this Newsweek poll 27% of agnostics/atheists believe evolution is God-guided while only 15% said "other/don't know". And another 13% say god created us in our present form in the last 10,000 years. Does this not make sense to anyone else? If you're an atheist you have no belief in...

Just thought I'd test my chops in here again, since I've been making a spiritual journey as of late and I really need to temper my steel. I was atheist for years, but in the face of the possibility of anything existing outside of detectable existence, I want to call myself an agnostic...

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This is what I find confusing - When you are agnostic does that mean you are agnostic about everything or is it simply that you are agnostic in regard to the Christian/Hebrew god, for example? Is the thinking like this - while Zeus and Poseidon (sp) and pink unicorns are ridiculous notions, I...

Im looking for a logo to represent my Agnosticism to have as my MSN Display Pic, just wondering if someone could make/find one for me. Thanks all.

Something I've been trying to find - with great difficulty, is how many politicians are atheist or agnostic. Francois Mitterand seems to have been the most prominent in recent times, while our own dear Helen Clark is the only openly agnostic or atheist I can find who is currently in a senior...

From an interesting NYT story on giving:

He didn't want us to argue about them in his thread, so I'm starting a new one. What he calls "strong atheists" I'd just call "atheists". What he calls "weak atheists" I'd call "agnostics. It seems both to subvert the agnostic position for atheists, and to frame the agnostic position...

I came across these definitions on wikipedia. Strong atheists claim that there is no god or gods. Weak atheists claim have no belief in god, but no not reject the possibility of god or gods might exist. Strong agnostics claim that the existence of god is unknowable. Weak agnostics claim that...

I'm an athiest. I don't believe there's a god. However, I have often used religious language. For example: "I can only pray he gets better" pray=hope "god only knows" nobody really knows "god damn it" simple swear I suppose I've used this language because I grew up in a society that uses...

This is a redux of the previous thread, on atheism. It's bogging down, so I want to crystalize my argument into one comprehensive post. First off, we have to use a few definitions for clarity. These are purely to avoid pointless semantic bits of talking past each other and is not part of the...

I haven't posted much, because I wanted to read the forum a bit and see some of the discussion before I started to participate (I guess that by definition make me a troll... sorry). I know many others have posted similar topics, but I really wanted to see if anyone else had any similar...

I've been a member and reading JREF for many years. At first I was glad to read about clairvoyants, psychics and homeopathy - and to discover that my long-held doubts about them were rational. Over time I then realised that I should apply the same critical-thinking towards my strong religious...

And it was due to watching The Passion of the Christ! Once he got through the brutality of this movie, he began to ask himself, "Why would any God sacrific his own son for the whole of humanity's sins? If this 'God' is all powerful, why would he need the sacrifice of his own son to forgive...

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One thing mentioned in the commentary that surprises me a bit, and it did surprise me when I first heard the talk as well, is the importance given to the fact that some material was given to Robert from Christians even if he himself is openly an agnostic. Is it perhaps my European perspective...

i think i am an agnostic. i do not like to confine my self... but if i have to put my self in a definition between, atheist, agnostic, and religious. i just read through a hread about those definitions... aren't we one hec of a confused beings! it is all because of the 'law of three'. i dont...

pease confirm, (spelling also) agnostic: do not have any faith in earthly religion, but belives the posibility of higher plane, being, existance. i didnt like to say 'higher'. anyway... athies: just dies and that is it. nothing after or before. no god then the 'believers

Believe me, I'm normally a humble person, but the following caused me some aggravation: How can a commonly used definition be mistaken? Expect some polemic to follow. Introduction: About Definitions You can reject a definition because it is circular, or because it contains a...

Sometimes people make distinctions between agnostics and atheists, many(?) religious people seem to be more comfortable with labelling the unbeliever as agnostic rather than atheist. Dunno about you guys, but I make the assumption that an agnostic is an atheist. The agnostic does not believe in...

Atheism; Agnostic, and then there’s What would a person be if they believed in a god(s) but refused to worship it(them)?

I'm agnostic and I do not understand how atheism is a logically defensible. How do the atheists here justify their position? To avoid the meaningless debate over semantics, we will use these definitions for the purposes of this thread. Agnosticism-The belief that there can be no proof either...

Hey guys i'm new here. As a skeptic, the thing that bothered me that most has always been religion. I am a very serious non-believer but I have concerns about the idea of a godless universe. I strongly believe that my beliefs are correct but I don't think the majority of the world could...

What stops Agnostics from coming all the way to becoming Atheists? What holds them back? For example, how much of what holds them back from going and coming all the way is a belief that God is going to come to the point of punishing them if they take the last step? I think that much of...

From this thread: http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40066 WAITAMINUTE!!!! Does that make Hal an agnostic because he believes that God's existence or non-existance is beyond the ken of humans? After all, the fundamentalist believes there is plenty of proof of God's...

These ideas are 'nothing new'. I'll just present them, and we can have fun shooting them up. It could be possible that a 'deity' of some sort made life. Unfortunately for this hypothesis, such an entity could not have been 'created', except by a previously existing entity. So, either we have...

:) Way to go, Studs!

Is it possible to state which of a 'freethinking' group is more rational? In this case, agnostics, or atheists?

Which word do you describe yourself as? Previous to now, I've described myself as Agnostic. As in the common idea of someone sitting on the fence with an open mind about God's existence. I still feel that way, but I've been starting to call myself an athiest. First off, I don't like the...