--- iaamoac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 04:49:54AM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
> >
> > > So agnostics are just as willing to find out if God exists as
> they are
> > > to find out that God does not exist?
> >
> > That is pretty much the definition, I thought.
>
> In practice, I think that many, if not most, agnostics are
> simply "honest atheists." Since true atheism would require a matter
> of faith - since a negative cannot be proved, many people who might
> casually be thought of as "atheists" tend to self-characterize
> themselves as "agnostic." As such, I think a great many of self-
> described agnostics strongly "lean" atheist.
It would be the same as being agnostic about the space alien zipeldorbgh from
the planet tripalawalazipdang. I can neither prove nor disprove zipeldobgh's
existance.
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