Agnosticism

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Agnosticism (from Greek "a-", without, and "gnosis", knowledge) is the position that it is not possible to know whether God exists. In common parlance, the state of being unsure whether God exists.

See Agnosticism in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Note that agnosticism says nothing about whether one believes in God or not. It is perfectly consistent to say that one firmly believes in God, but at the same time this belief is based solely on faith, with no evidence. It is just as consistent to say that one does not believe in God, given that there is no evidence, but that one could be wrong.

Agnostics can be categorized into weak agnostics, who believe that whether God exists can not be known at the present time but may be known in the future, and strong agnostics, who believe that whether God exists can never be known.

There is a variety of other views, such as:

• agnostic theists, who believe that we do not know whether God exists but existance is more likely,
• agnostic atheists, who believe that we do not know whether God exists but non-existance is more likely,
• ignostics, who believe that the question of God's existence is not important.

This term was coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869.

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