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'''Agnosticism''' is the belief that [[God]]'s existence or lack of existence is unknowable. Agnostics differ from [[Atheism|atheists]] in that they do not deny God's existence. | '''Agnosticism''' is the belief that [[God]]'s existence or lack of existence is unknowable. Agnostics differ from [[Atheism|atheists]] in that they do not deny God's existence. | ||
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Template:Expand Agnosticism is the belief that God's existence or lack of existence is unknowable. Agnostics differ from atheists in that they do not deny God's existence.
The word "agnostic" was coined by T. H. Huxley[1] from the Greek roots a- not, and -gnostic, knowing; the philosopher Herbert Spencer was influential in spreading its use. One nineteenth-century saw held that "There is no god but the Unknowable, and Herbert Spencer is his prophet."[2]
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- ↑ T. H. Huxley was also an early and influential supporter of Darwinism.
- ↑ London, Jack (1913), Martin Eden, Chapter 13