Malcolm McMahon (malcolm at pigsty.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: >This amounts to just playing with words.
: No, it's an important distinction. Atheism and agnosticism are two very
: different things. Atheism is a faith (since it's no more possible to
: prove the non-existance of god than the existence). There's a _lot_ more
: agnostics out there than atheists which is why some atheists try to
: "recruit" the agnostics by blurring the distinction.
And the color of the sky in your world is...?
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In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a
degree that it would be perverse to withold provisional
assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise
tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time
in physics classrooms.
-Stephen Jay Gould
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