On Wed., 1 Feb. 2017 at 4:32 am, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Are you really agnostic about the god of theism? > > Quoting from wikipedia: > > "The term theism derives from the Greek theos meaning "god". The term > theism was first used by Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688).[5] In Cudworth's > definition, they are "strictly and properly called Theists, who > affirm, that a perfectly conscious understanding being, or mind, > existing of itself from eternity, was the cause of all other > things".[6] > Atheism is commonly understood as rejection of theism in the broadest > sense of theism, i.e. the rejection of belief in a god or gods.[7] The > claim that the existence of any deity is unknown or unknowable is > agnosticism.[8][9]" > > I would say that, under these definitions, the correct scientific > stance is to be agnostic. > > In this mailing list, we have seen hypothesis about such a mind that > do not require man-in-the-sky, creationism or other absurdities, nor > conflict with current scientific models. Are they correct? I don't > know, so... Is agnosticism about God different from agnosticism about other entities such as fairies and elves? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
