Agnosticism and other related labels (Agnosticism)

by romansh , Saturday, May 10, 2014, 22:13 (3632 days ago) @ David Turell
edited by unknown, Saturday, May 10, 2014, 22:21

I don't see the importance of worrying about these minute differences in definitions. To me an atheist doesn't accept the concept of God or gods, strongly or weakly doesn't matter, and an agnostic like dhw is not sure that it can be proven there can be a God or gods, but he remains open to the possibilty that proof may appear. -Essentially I agree with you David; so long as we are clear which definition we are talking about. The problem lies when we use the weak definition of atheist because it applies to agnostics such as dhw and myself. I have no problem with this as it is only a semantic shell game, but dhw seems to have some fundamental disagreement with the weak definition. Also from what I have read Dawkins also falls into the weak category which I think dhw also objects to.-> All simple and not worthy of prolonged discussion. Resembles the famous number of angels on the head of a pin. We debate here about whether science is providing any answers to the question. Whether the Bible is some help is also covered. Definitions don't get to any central points.-Personally, I did not think I was saying anything terribly controversial here.