--- 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. ===== _________________________________________________ Jan William Coffey _________________________________________________ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l