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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That’s not what agnostic means. Agnostics believe “there is no way to know”, so you can have Agnostic Theists (we can’t know for sure, but I believe God exists) as well as Agnostic Atheists (we can’t know for sure, but I don’t believe God exists).

The opposite is gnosticism, and you can similarly have Gnostic Theists (God exists and I can prove it) and Gnostic Atheists (God doesn’t exist, and I can prove it).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Looks like I made a small mistake, but it just takes agnostic closer to atheist

The English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley coined the word agnostic in 1869, and said "It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Most agnostics are atheists because the evidence always favors atheism. But there really are a handful of agnostic theists out there!