On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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?
I would argue that man-in-the-sky god is the same as fairies and elves: the likelihood of these things being real is extraordinary slow. But that is not a particularly interesting fact... Telmo. > -- > 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. -- 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.
