Agnosticism
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Template:Stub Agnosticism is the belief that God's existence or lack of existence can be neither proved nor disproved. 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]
So, I asked the chaps (by chaps, I mean people), on the rational wikipedia site, about agnostics. How many of you chaps are agnostic?
I am.
Me too Chris - I'm one.
References
- ↑ T. H. Huxley was also an early and influential supporter of Darwinism
- ↑ London, Jack (1913), Martin Eden, Chapter 13