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An agnostic is one who believes it impossible to know anything about God or about the creation of the universe and refrains from commitment to any religious doctrine.

Agnosticism is the view that the truth values of certain claims – especially metaphysical and religious claims such as whether God, the divine, or the supernatural exist – are unknown and perhaps unknowable.

Wikipedia article for agnosticism.

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Is agnosticism subjective? And thus the "spaghetti monster"-argument falls apart?

According to the philosopher William L. Rowe, "agnosticism is the view that human reason is incapable of providing sufficient rational grounds to justify either the belief that God exists or the belief that God does not exist" The word "rational"…
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What Form of agnostic am I?

I believe that the existence of god (or another deity) is unknownable I neither believe nor disbelieve in the existence of a god (or other deities) though I'm skeptical/doubtful about existence of a god. am i an agnostic atheist? or something else?…
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Does Godel's incompleteness theorem support agnosticism?

The nature or the universe where we live in has a rule controlling how things work (if not, then the world surely is agnostic). Take it as our model, then the model allows the arithmetic. No matter how we expand our language or theory, Godel's…
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What is meant by "agnostic to a lesser degree"?

This was said by Sam Harris in response to somebody who said they were agnostic. I won't present his argument or question, but it did contain the following phrase You are obviously agnostic to a lesser degree when it comes to Poseidon than you are…
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